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Fanjita, Noobz release Furikup PSP SIP Phone - The PSP Skype alternative |
Listed in: Homebrew Applications, News Tags: Fanjita, Noobz, psp homebrews, Skype, Sony, UK
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You have to hand it to Fanjita and Noobz, they just keep coming up with stuff that make us all go nuts. While the Sony PlayStation Portable mainstream crowd is waiting for more announcements from official channels about the upcoming Skype features, Fanjita and Noobz went on ahead with the development of the homebrew alternative.
In the latest post from the Noobz home page, the homebrew devs pointed out the flaws of Sony's Skype-driven system to come. They listed quite a number of disadvantages, and said they decided to make their own phone-calling software for everyone to enjoy.
The new Fanjita and Noobz software is called "Furikup." They say it's derived from "geeky" jargon, so don't worry if it sounds dirty when you first hear or read it. In any case, these are the main features:
- It's free software - in both the beer, and speech senses.
- You can use it anywhere in the world, subject to signing-up to a suitable local SIP-based voice-over-IP provider and being near a usable wifi access point. In many countries, you can find those for free or nearly-free - e.g. with SIPGate, in the UK, you can call to your PSP from any standard phone (landline or cellphone) for just the standard local call cost, and from PSP to another SIP phone (another PSP or a PC) for free.
- It runs on both slim and fat PSPs.
- It uses open standards, for maximum compatibility with other phone systems.
- You can use a Go!Cam (Chotto Shot), Talkman microphone, or SOCOM-style headset for audio input. (And even if you don't have any of those, you can still send audio from a WAV file in a pinch).
There's a lot more information in the readme file included in the archive, so don't forget to go through it. Enjoy!
Thanks to bobtentpeg for the tip!
Download: Furikup v0.1 PSP SIP Phone
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So basically they made a Skype alternative from scratch. WHAT THE H.ELL. This is way insane.
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Its actually quite usable, even though its in beta. Now i just need to get a headset and I;m set
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It's good to know someone still cares about us.
Thank you very much Noobz/Fanjita. As always, you all are doing great things for the PSP scene.
.A.J.
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the ds even has excelent quality voice, no need to buy head set either
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Also the noobz pages seem to be down ... maybe to much traffic?
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* Max 300 minutes per week of free calls, measured over the last 7 days and per unique IP address. Unused free minutes cannot be taken to the following week(s). If limit is exceeded the normal rates apply. With your FREE DAYS you can call for free to all the destinations listed as free! when you have no FREE DAYS left the normal rates apply. You can get extra Freedays by buying credit
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site is www.voipcheap.com
sipcfg.ini files layout is like this:
server=sip.VoipCheap.com
username=xxxxxx
password=xxxxxx
stunserver=stun.voipbuster.com
stunport=3478
input=file
contacts file is like this:
House,sip:1"area code""phonenumber"@sip.VoipCheap.com,mr,man
no quotes and no spaces in the phone number it should be something like this 18885551212 at least for calls in the US not sure about outside of the US
PSP is Custom FW 3.71 M33-2
Kernel set to 3.71
App placed in GAME folder
WILL ALSO WORK if:
Kernel set to 1.50
App placed in GAME371 folder
I hope this helps you all! So far it's the only one I found that gives true free calls to landlines!! And I've been looking since this was released last night!
Oh yeah ... also if your press your "select" button on your PSP you will get "detailed" info when you place a call
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works in us
psp - psp, psp -pc free,
landline calls work fine, cost 1.9 cents/min in US, 2 cents in UK, audio quality on the landline end wasnt great, but it was usable. using chotto shot japanese.
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Echo Test,sip:17474743246@proxy01.sipphone.com,Echo,Test
the numbers are the person you're trying to reach SIP account .... example is an account with sipphone
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Dartan-pc,sip:dartan30@sip.VoipCheap.com,mr,man
feel free to give it a call ... I'll be on for a while...
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I went to the site and find it confusing the "no FREE DAYs left". Does that mean their sevice is a "trial"? since it say to buy credit or else I'll pay 0.015 cent if I make call in USA after freeday end.
Or is it really "forever free" if I obey the 300 minute perweek.
Please reply thank you.
-Victor
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Oh btw, I read alot of bad (customer support or not even at all) review on all these "similar" freecall....such as voipbuster, voipstunt, voipcheap etc..
So word of advice do not pay them anything.
I would probably just going to make like many accounts and get them free minutes.
Also, if you ever can use 300 minutes without paying from voipcheap, reply :) so I can join
Take care.
-Victor
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