http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/ Engadget Comments for Vonage @ CES - Hands-on with the UTStarcom F-1000, Vonage's WiFi phone http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/
Here's the v'tu
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Some more realalistic specs "up to 3 hours talk" only "WEP".

http://www.utstar.com/Solutions/Document_Library/Handsets/docs/WiFi/F1000DataSheet.pdf]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/exactly! that, and you can set up a hotspot on your own in places you know you'll be a lot (at home and possibly at school or work, anyways)
I know that my cell phone gets a crap signal in both my home and at my dads home]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/
about the price, $100, dunno if free for users, i guess free for NEW users... anyway, you gotta spend $10/mo to their softphone service (I do, and I barely use it. that's why i'm gathering all this info!)

the only thing that put me down is that some said it will only work on password-protected wifis (and if you have the password, of course), not open ones. dunno about it, jsut waiting for more info.

but now, the battery is simply not enough... 8 hours idle would be enough for a commute. 6 hours is not enough.

better wait, so.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/
Have YOU noticed any cellphone sized 2.4 Ghz phones? I haven't. Those little Uniden thingees use the 5.8 gHz band, not 2.4.

So... if you want a wi-fi phone that works with the b and g standards, AND has decent talk time, I speculate that you will require a huge battery, and thus a huge phone.

If the Vonage wi-fi phone is cellular sized, you are probably going to sacrifice battery life.

Myself, I'm not so enamored with small phones. In fact, I like the Engenius ultra-long range 900 mHz phone, and has a "big" antenna to boost range (which, with a high gain antenna on the roof, is like 5 miles or so, enough to use like a cellphone around town).]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/
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Works fine with Vonage. (Although I think Vonage charges you an extra $5/mo as they consider it the same as running SoftPhone on your PC)]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.jfsky.com http://www.21down.cn http://www.8down.net]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/09/vonage-ces-hands-on-with-the-utstarcom-f-1000-vonages/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AM