[Asterisk-Users] UTStarcom F1000 WiFi IP Phone Review

[Steve]

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
>
> 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
>