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Recent nexus 7 purchaser (~ 1 week) here, previously disenchanted with android, who therefore reverted to a Nokia N900 but is now considering using the nexus 7 in the real life on a daily basis.

There are many great points in the article (and BTW I purchased the same cover - it has a magnet to turn the screen off when it closes and works a bit like an ipad cover) but there are some weird points. Well, a big one : no software phone by default.

Why should we need grooveip?

I have various SIP accounts, and on my laptop, I can use google voice to send call from the browser. I just wish the Nexus 7 had something better than "click to call" (to another device)

(and I wish it was possible to connect by SIP to google voice)

Just put some cash on your account and you can also send call.

The form factor is not really a problem - you just use the nexus 7 'differently'.



> (and I wish it was possible to connect by SIP to google voice)

There was a time when you could connect Google Voice to Gizmo5 (SIP) but then Google bought them and disabled that functionality.


If you have the time to mess around with Asterisk, it's doable on your own. That's a sizable "if" though.


Wait, why hasn't someone made a kit for this and offered people free home phone service without a monthly fee?


There are lots of SIP phone services. I use sipgate which covers many countries and have an old VoIP phone or use my mobile.


I ended up using Yate with a hard phone to achieve this.

It works mostly, but far from trouble free.




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