On 2018-02-22, Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-open...@tor.at> wrote: > Hello Xianwen, > > xianwen.c...@nina.no (Xianwen Chen), 2018.02.22 (Thu) 01:49 (CET): >> I actually do not know. I just have this idea that I would like to use >> my OpenBSD laptop as a mobile phone as well. I think there are USB >> dongles that act as GSM network device. I am wondering if I could use >> such a dongle to operate a SIM card on OpenBSD, to receive/send SMS >> and to receive/make phone calls. > > regarding GSM phone calls: how is the sound going to get from the GSM > device to your ears? And from your speech output device (aka mouth) to > the GSM device? > > The way I'd try is: network connectivity via GSM modem, run VoIP/SIP > over that. Have yourself connected to the phone world by some Provider.
You can get voice traffic out of some mobile devices, there is http://wiki.e1550.mobi/doku.php?id=introduction which is a module for asterisk (and then you could use a softphone like baresip on the same machine). No idea what is required to get it to work on OpenBSD though.
