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

[Marcel Prisi]

I must say that I would be EXTREMELY interested in distributing such 
phones here in Switzerland ... We see a lot of demand here ... I am even 
willing to beta-test if needed.

For hardware/software infos, have a look at :

http://www.tuxscreen.net/

This is a completely open-source and open-hardware hardware phone based 
on Linux on an ARM embedded platform ... they already had lots of 
experience ... but might need some different software ...

Steven Critchfield wrote:

> 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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