My experience with EQO on my E61i - others?

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Hi all,
I'd like to start out by saying that I've been using EQO (www.eqo.com) for a few days now and am relatively satisfied. I'd like to see what other users' experiences have been like using this application.
In my experience, about 80% of the calls have been very good quality. On the other 20% there has been a notable delay, making the conversations "awkward". This is when calling internationally from Italy.
For those that have used EQO in the past, you should know that they changed their model completely just last month. They aren't "just another SKYPE client" any more but instead have set up their own competing network to allow cheap international calls via VOIP. The twist is that you can do this from anywhere you have a GSM/GPRS signal instead of being "tethered" to your computer.
In a nutshell, you install the EQO client on your MIDP 2.0 phone (most MIDP 2.0 phones appear to be supported) then use it to make calls instead of making them via the "normal" phone interface. The underlying mechanism is this: they have you make a call in-country then forward the call along to the final destination via VOIP. This is done via a MIDP 2.0 application which imports your phone book from the phone then communicates with the EQO server via GPRS/UMTS/WiFi/etc.. When you want to make a call, it tells the server where you're calling then automatically places a call to a number in the country YOUR phone number is from which is then automatically routed to the final number. It's an interesting model and, in practice is pretty transparent to the user (in the end, without worrying too much about what's going on "under the covers", you just make your calls via the EQO application on your phone and it goes through ...). On the downside you wind up paying for the "local" call to a land line telephone number. On the positive side, you don't need to have a wifi capable phone or pay large data charges to have your calls go across UMTS.
It's an interesting alternative to Skype (or FRING) and can be used on most MIDP 2.0 phones since it doesn't require WiFi or UMTS.
Has anybody else tried this application? What have your experiences been?
Regards,
Brad

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ahmmetwally wrote:
Can you assign a time interval to autolock your keypad? I don't think so. It's a new bug after updating to V20 !!!!!!!!
never noticed that. Not that I really care. My screen times out after one min, which is what I had it set on before I updated anyway, so it looks like the setting are now 1 min or not at all in the menu.. So we are missing the 30 second option, that is not what I would call a bug to be honest, looks like it was changed on purpose
Phone - Nokia N97 Black - RM-505 on 3(UK)
Firmware - V21.0.045 date - 14/1/10
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