http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/ Engadget Comments for Review of the UTStarcom F1000, Vonage's first 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/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/has the qualtiy and service improved generally?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/
Of course, the phones will have to get a little more stylish first, but there you go...
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I've been with Vonage for a long time myself, and yes, the service and quality of calls has done nothing but increase as the years go by.

Right now, I have zero complaints with their service. No echoes, no dropped calls, great web interface and support.

I'd give them a try again. They sell new routers now instead of the cisco one i have (how geeky was that?) that look more like appliances for the home.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/We bought it for the $27 a month unlimited everything. Save a ton off qwest local service plus add on's and at&t unlimited long distance.
I run a cable modem to a wireless router. The vonage is plugged in the router along with a pc & a wireless laptop & tivo box also share the bandwidth. Works perfect! Saves me $40+ a month. We just moved & I didn't have to have qwest come out & change anything or hook up anything, just unplugged qwest from the house & plugged vonage into the wall. Instant phone through out the home, same phone number. No install charges.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/
I'm sure any small business would be interested in the same thing.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/
damn missing link ..

Ssavitzky there are many vendors that make wifi phones that are not vendor locked. Cisco has a nice one. this page has a link to ALL of them

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Phones

-b]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/
When they get down to $100 I'll consider buying one; more than that and I'm better off wired. When they get down to $50 I'll think about replacing most of the phones in my house.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/
A bake-off of recently available WiFi handsets seems to be in order...]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/
Can this thing dial any full sip address, such as john@doe.com, or just the crippled version where it dials a numeric "user name" and assumes that the domain is the proxy server it's connected to? This is a huge issue with SIP telephony that product specs never seem to point out. SIP phones that allow you to dial any SIP address can allow users to effectively grandfather out PSTN phones.

The comment is that WiMax will go beyond just being "handy"; it will take over the mobile phone network concept. When everyone has high-speed broadband internet devices with unlimited data plans for like 50-60$/mo. and they can use those devices for unlimited "free" telephony, wimax agents are going to have reason to make towers just as prolific as mobile phone towers. Eventually, all "cell phones" will just be standards compliant SIP Wimax devices. That's my prediction. Give it 5-7 more years.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/15/review-of-the-utstarcom-f1000-vonages-first-wifi-phone/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM