[Asterisk-Users] UTStarcom F1000 WiFi IP Phone Review

[weicheng jiang]

    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

This quotes 48-80 hours standby, so you can probably
reckon on it being towards
the lower end of that in reality.

Would be interested to hear the retail price of these
(rather than the Vonage
bundled price)

Simon
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