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

[Steven Critchfield]

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. 


> 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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