[Asterisk-Users] UTStarcom F1000 WiFi IP Phone Review

[weicheng jiang]

I just talked to someone at http://www.luxoncomm.com,
he said authentication via http will be supported in
the next firmware release (2.8), due out in a couple
of weeks.

 - Lucas

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I keep getting asked by people if these types of wifi
phones are
capable at all of getting onto the type of wifi
network where you have
to login via http (web page) such as is typical at
many hotels in
the us.

Since I do not have one of these phones I have not
been able to try it.
Seems the phone would need a simple browser in order
to do that.

Does anyone know if any of the wifi phones can do
this?

Thanks!

Steve

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, weicheng jiang wrote:

>    I bought a UTStarcom F1000 WiFi IP Phone from
> http://www.luxoncomm.com and tested it with
Asterisk.
> This is a my first impression of the device.
>
>    The F1000 supports SIP. It looks and operates
like
> a cell phone, and connects to the Internet through
> WiFi, so you can use it at any WiFi hotspot. I set
up
> a 802.11b wi-fi network with a Linksys BEFW11S4
> Wireless-B broadband router with no security
> requirement and SSID broadcast enabled. When I
turned
> on the F1000 it automatically picked up the signal
and
> connected to the network.
>
>    Usage of the keypad is pretty intuitive, the
> buttons are the same as on a cell phone, I didn't
> bother to read the user guide. ;-)  I scrolled to
the
> Wi-Fi configuration menu and entered the domain of
my
> asterisk server as the SIP proxy. In the same
section
> I entered my asterisk user name and password. After
a
> reboot the phone was registered to my asterisk
server!
> I made a few calls and the call quality was fine,
> similar to a regular IP phone.
>
>    I then took the phone to the office, it also
> picked up the wifi signal there and connected to the
> Internet automatically. Nice! I showed it off to my
> colleague and they wanted to get one too.
>
>    I will follow up with a review of the advanced
> features such as call transfer and 3-way calling.
>
> - Lucas
>
> On Tue Jan 04, 2005 at 01:27:21PM -0500, Philippe
> Daoust wrote:
>> Anybody know anything about this F-1000 phone?
>> 100 hours of battery life, not bad at all...
>
>
http://www.utstar.com/Solutions/Document_Library/Handsets/docs/WiFi/F1000DataSheet.pdf


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