We first saw OpenPeak's
OpenFrame home phone at CES, where it was sporting various FreeScale and ARM chips under the hood, but it looks like things have changed in development -- the company has been showing off production-ready units built on Atom chips at IDF. OpenPeak says that the ease of building for IA32 sped up development completely, and that only a fraction of the CPU is being used, giving the product room to grow -- probably a good thing, seeing as it supports open application development, rich services, and syncs with your PC and cell phone contacts and calendars. Of course, that still doesn't change the fact that it's a landline phone, and we're just not certain consumers are really clamoring for a $200 to $300 landline phone -- even it does rock a distinctly familiar
touch interface. Anyone going to take the plunge when this thing hits in the first quarter of next year?
Read - Wired article
Read - Video shown at IDF
posted Aug 21st 2008 8:21AM
Looks real nice,wonder what it can be hacked to do. Also no I don't want it running doom so that I miss phone calls
Note to AMD, please send you anti-monopoly investigators to snoop on this, I smell another Intel coercion. Aww forgot.. Your processor suck.
No, their processors do not 'suck, AMD is just going about things the old-fashioned way. they are slow, but when they hit one - they do knock it out of the ball park. You'd do well to remember that . . . . Fanboy . . . .
The product actually looks and sounds really nice, just a little too expensive for my tastes
My landline cost me less than £8. it does exactly what i need it to. Answer the landline calls.
If i need to check the weather or traffic or look at my contacts.. I'll use my mobile, which is usually within reach.
This actually looks nice, and potentially interesting. As a phone though I see a major obstacle early on ... like, how many other people are gonna have one. I'd be aiming for other apps to spur initial interest.
Put a cheap camera on the large screen already.
landline phones can still be plugged into voip services, in fact most voip services that aren't primarily PC based require a landline phone to use them
So is it the gadget on the left, right, or both? I'm assuming its the handset on the left; what, then, is the pmp looking device to its side? Or, is it an entire system?
I misread the title as "landmine phone". The reality is less interesting. :(
I might buy it, depending on whether calls rely on VoIP, which I can't tell from the marketing info.
I keep a landline, and one phone that requires no wall power, precisely because I want one line that doesn't rely on electricity, the Internet, or wireless, all of which can have reliability problems in some (albeit limited) circumstances.
If it had sip I'd be down for one
This is the same phone fabled as the "FiOS Fone", right? If so, it's going to rock harder than your mom at night!
am i the only person who reads this blog who doesnt get a boner when someone says Atom?
Just add skype capability and a videocam and I'll order one straight away.