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<FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11" DEFAULT="SIZE">Witness the fact that the old Pingtel phones ran Java, and they were incredibly lame. <BR>
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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.<BR>
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OTOH, presuming that the snom phones are Linux on a suitable platform soomeone could develop a custom software load for them and OEM the hardware. <BR>
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<B>From:</B> Wilton Helm<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:28:40 -0700<BR>
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>This is not entirely true - many of the nokia phones use a java OS as a <BR>
>core, and you can load pretty much any java software you want on them, <BR>
>but all the points about power and battery use are still valid. (and <BR>
>whether you really consider that truly an OS is questionable, but its <BR>
>out there)<BR>
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Java is the worst offender. Its resource requirements often exceed those of the application it is running. Java is useful for things like displaying web pages that are not time critical and where its write once, run everywhere philosophy is valuable. But anyone trying to actually do things like I/O control, call setup, transcoding, etc. in Java are asking for every issue I raised. If WCE can get 8 hours of battery life, Java would be about 3. <BR>
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