Nokia E65

Summary: So far the only Nokia phone which works properly and reliably vs Asterisk.

Introduction

The phone is a Symbian based business oriented slider with 2/2.5/2.75/3G and WiFi?. Detailed specs can be found on gsmarena.com.

Asterisk Configuration

The phone works reliably vs asterisk 1.2.13 without any of the recent N95 sillies.

The configuration of the phone is as follows:

• Create a set of SIP settings for Asterisk
  • The type of profile should be IETF
  • Set the default access point to your WiFi? network
  • Set the username to a full user@realm notation - example e65@mobile.sigsegv.cx
  • Compression is off
  • Registration is always on (required to call the phone back).
  • Security is off
  • Set the registrar server to your asterisk server
  • Set the proxy server to your asterisk server (optional)
• Configure Asterisk sip.conf section

[e65]
nat=yes                       
insecure=very
qualify=yes                  ; this is essential if not present nokia will shut down the wi-fi interface after a while
type=friend
regexten=1234
mailbox=1234@local
username=e65
context=mobile
secret=SECRET
host=dynamic
canreinvite=no
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
allow=g729

• Create a set of suitable connection profiles by converting found WiFi? sites into a profile or using the profile editor under Settings/Connection/Internet Telephony
• Set the Wireless discovery to a reasonable interval (5 min is usually OK) under Settings/Connection/WiFi
• The phone should now register to the asterisk and work

So far, this has been the only phone which has worked out of the box without me going through all kinds of hoops to get it going

-- AntonIvanov? - 11 Nov 2008