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 ...
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! :)
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