[Asterisk-Users] Hardware IAX phone (please read and reply!)

[Steven Critchfield]

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
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Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>