[asterisk-users] building a phone

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:39:59PM -0600, Michael Graves wrote:
> Witness the fact that the old Pingtel phones ran Java, and they were
> incredibly lame. 
> 
> I think part of what this thread misses is that DSP is a god chunk of
> what SIP phones need. A general purpose CPU is not the right tool for
> the task. A cheap DSP is better suited to compression, transcoding,
> etc.

Maybe. But it is also a great limitation on the hackability and thus on
the speed of development.

I think that general-purpose processors are strong enough for that.

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