If there was a native IAX phone with GSM support and was around $70, I'd buy a few, and I know several people in my social groups would get them. I could even make a business case to get them for the office.
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 02:56, Grzegorz Nosek wrote: > Hello all! > > I've talked recently to the head of R&D dept. of Telkom Telos > (www.telos.com.pl) - a big Polish company specialised in making > phones. I gave them the idea of creating a cheap (cost-effective) > hardware IP phone. The phone we discussed would include hardware > support for IAX (though probably SIP/sth. else would be required too > if it were to hit the market.. what do you think?) and GSM 06.10. > Although they have no previous experience in IP phones, they were > quite interested and promised to have a deeper look into the issue. > > So now for the big part: everybody PLEASE give your suggestions about > what the IP phone of your choice should look/work/... like. The main > reason we started the talks was the cost of currently available > phones (even $70+s&h is a truckload of money for a phone here in > Poland) but any and all suggestions are welcome. > > I'd also love to hear from the more hardware-oriented people - do you > have any suggestions about used chips, controllers, codecs, whatever? > As I said, although they've been making phones for years, they > haven't built an IP phone before so they have to research the > possible elements used. Why not make it easier for them? :) > > With Telos being a specialised factory, there's the benefit that e.g. > good-looking cases are no problem at all, and if low price wasn't the > goal, touchscreens and all would be an option too - maybe > some "deluxe" edition? > > An alternative design that came up was a bigger (say, 12/24 ports) > gateway with some embedded Linux running on an industrial PC (as > beefy as circumstances require - any comments?) with plain RJ11 > sockets on one side and Ethernet on the other. What do you think > about this? > > Hope to hear from you (a lot! :) > > Grzegorz Nosek > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
