[Freeswitch-users] Looking for some good/cheap desktop phones

[Steve Underwood]

On 02/05/2010 11:31 PM, David Knell wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> This is a start:
> http://www.digitmat.com/ - you need to follow some links, but it's open
> source.
>
> --Dave
>    
Those people have a troubled history. They were the people behind many 
of the early cheap, but less than stellar, VoIP phones, with a chip that 
isn't made any more - the PA1688. They seem to have regrouped, and have 
a newer chip. I wonder if they have got their act together this time.
>> Sigh... When is someone actually going to build an open platform voip
>> hardware phone... Its just a linux box that happens to be shaped like
>> a phone, with a touch screen, 48kHz sound card... and possibly video
>> too.
>>
>>
>> /b
>> PS: Most of those eastern made phones are crap.
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Tihomir Culjaga wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Atcom AT-620
>>> (http://www.atcom.cn/AT620.html#~tab-small_midsized_large_enterprises) is quite ok and cheap (~30$)... also we have been talking to Atcom to add a sort of auto-provissioning (dhcp/http) and this is going to happen next week.
>>>
>>>
>>> T.
>>>        
>>
ATCOM are amenable to the idea of supplying hardware for other people to 
put their own software on. Some of their phones use Infineon chip sets, 
and I think those are running software based on the Infineon Linux 
reference platform. All it takes is a few good people with the 
commitment to actually do something. I expect there are other Chinese 
makers who would be delighted to supply bare hardware to people, and a 
lot of the cheaper current Chinese phones have very similar Infineon 
based designs.

Steve