[Asterisk-Users] IP Phone that OFFICIALLY support Asterisk

[Jim Van Meggelen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Christopher L. Wade
> Sent: October 20, 2004 5:46 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] IP Phone that OFFICIALLY 
> support Asterisk
> 
> 
> Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
> > 
> > Can you imagine!?! That would be the most brillant thing they could 
> > do! They should also open up their platform so people can 
> port Linux, 
> > BSD and what-all-else to it. Oh, and drop the price a bit 
> while their 
> > at it!
> > 
> > The whole Linksys/Linux/Cisco thing really fascinates me. 
> The things 
> > people are doing with the Linksys routers must have a lot of Cisco 
> > people wondering what the future is going to look like.
> > 
> > And as for Call Manager? I predict that they will be officially 
> > Asterisk-compliant in . . . hmmm . . . I'll say roughly 
> five years or 
> > so. Possibly far sooner if they yank their heads out of their asses 
> > and grab a clue. Asterisk is destined to do for telecom 
> what Linux did 
> > for the OS. In five years, many big names will be waving 
> the Asterisk 
> > flag in the exact same way they are with Linux. Mark my words.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I keep wondering what would hapen if Microsoft were to OS the whole 
> > Windows platform. That'd change everything, eh?
> > 
> 
> [falls asleep and starts dreaming...]
> 
> Could you image Digium (or anyone else up to the challenge) 
> making an OS 
> phone!  I know this is counter to the whole idea of not being 
> locked to 
> a particular vendor for your phones (part of the point of *), but I 
> would still love the idea of a phone with *very* high quality at the 
> hardware level, that exposes _as much as possible_ to the 
> "end user".  I 
> know this is basically asking someone to create a computer with a 
> headset/speaker/microphone and make it look like a phone, 
> but... oh how 
> sweet it would be.

Take one of these:
www.nano-itx.com
Connect one of these to it:
http://www.lilliput.cn/619.htm (that's a touch screen, BTW)

Fire in a USB handset, install Asterisk and the Flash Operator panel,
and you've got an awesome console - there's your OS phone! (too
expensive, for sure, but give it a few short years). Point being you CAN
have that right now.

> [entering even deeper sleep state...]
> 
> Your boss walks up to you and says he needs the phones to do 
> this fancy 
> new thing he just heard about somebody else's system being 
> able to do. 
> Worse yet, he wants a 'soft-key' for it!  No problem, edit the source 
> code to the firmware for the phone, add the required code to make the 
> phone do it.  What's this, * doesn't support the required 
> stuff at the 
> other end, just write an app, put it somewhere, and bam, the 
> whole thing 
> works.

Much of that can be done with Asterisk.

> [starting to come to reality, not quite there yet...]
> 
> At this point, unless your boss simply wants nicer hardware 
> (color touch 
> screen lcd for example), or you finally hit the limitation of the 
> hardware of the phone, you will _never_ need to buy another phone.

I'm with you.

> [wakes up from dream]
> 
> Huh?

LOL! Loved all of it! You're not that far off. Minature PCs are becoming
reality, as well as inexpensive LCD screens. Put them together with a
headset and you've got what you need!


> 
> -- 
> Christopher L. Wade                     Unistar-Sparco Computers, Inc.
> Senior Systems Administrator                            dba Sparco.com
> Email: clwade at sparco.com                             7089 Ryburn Drive
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