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

[Marcel Prisi]

Steven Critchfield wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 03:25, Marcel Prisi wrote:
> 
>>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 ...
> 
> 
> 
> bzzzt. wrong. There is a lot known about the hardware but it is not
> open. The software is only open after it was reloaded with debian. Also
> while the site you list was cheap, if you dig round, the manufacturing
> cost was over $300 each and target retail was over %600. Granted that
> was over 3 years ago, it wouldn't have dropped in price too
> significantly. The site you list was liquidating the last known
> inventory of those units. 
> 

So have a look there :

http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/

You will find there the hardware that evolved from what was in the 
Tuxscreen. It's license is open. It runs a 220Mhz StrongARM with more 
than 200 MIPS and has options for ethernet and sound i/o, all is 
linux-compatible ...

Maybe useful for prototyping ?