SIP on Nokia E61 and N80i

My previous post on how to configure a E61 to make VoIP calls has been read by more than 1000 people, underlining how Nokia customers are prone to profit the best from their phones.


To summarize, for those who read about this for the first time, many Nokia phones (E61 and N80i for example) are sold with an embedded SIP client (called Internet Telephone) that users can configure with a SIP account to use VoIP in their phones. The user experience is very good: you just have to select GSM or VoIP, and then if you have WiFi connectivity, a free or cheap VoIP call can be placed. Obviously you can make calls directly from the phone address book.

Some calls (typically IP-IP) are free, others (IP-PSTN for example) are not free, fares and payments vary depending on the service provider, as it happens for Internet connected PCs.

VoIP providers you can refer to configure your phone are Abbeyphone, Gizmo and Truphone.

The procedure to configure the E61 or N80i (here described by Luca) with an Abbeyphone account has two steps:

1) Configure a SIP account
2) Create a profile for the Internet Telephone

As you probably know, Abbeyphone provides alias and password to their users. The alias is in the form 21XXXXXXX: just replace this value with your personal one during the setting.

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Step 1 of 2: Configure a SIP Account

Menu->Tools -> Settings -> Connection -> SIP settings.
Now add a new SIP profile (Options->Add new): you can call it Abbeyphone, for example.

Profile Name: Abbeyphone
Service Profile: IETF
Default Access point: select the access point that will be used
Public user name: sip:21XXXXXXX@sip.abbeyphone.com
Use Compression: No
Registration: " When needed "
Use Security: No

Proxy Server: sip:sip.abbeyphone.com
Realm: sip.abbeyphone.com
User Name: 21XXXXXXX
Password: insert password for 21XXXXXXX
Allow loose routing: Yes
Transport Type: UDP
Port: 5060

Registrar Server: sip:sip.abbeyphone.com
Realm: sip.abbeyphone.com
User Name: 21XXXXXXX
Password: the password for 21XXXXXXX
Transport Type: UDP
Port: 5060

The SIP account is now ready.
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Step 2 of 2: Create a profile for the Internet Telephone

Menu->Tools->Settings->Connection->Internet Tel.->Options->New profile.
Suppose the new profile is named "AbbeyphoneTel". Now associate the profile to the previously created SIP account ("Abbeyphone"): Preferred profile: choose Abbeyphone.
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Now when you want to use VoIP, you have to register to the service:
Menu->Connectivity->Internet Tel->Registration Status->Options->Change. If unseletected, choose Register.

The phone will try to register to the Abbeyphone server. Once the registration is complete, you'll be able to make calls (select Internet call in the Call menu).

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