OpenPeak intros Atom-powered ProFrame VoIP phone

Hey, cube dwellers -- call your manager over and give him / her a look at this, because starting today, conference calling will never be the same. From what we can tell, this is the world's first Atom-powered telephone, and also the first telephone we've seen in years that we would joyously park in our own living rooms. OpenPeak's ProFrame is an all-in-one conglomerate that handles VoIP calling and offers up a 7-inch touchscreen panel and "an intuitive navigation menu for easy access to contacts, instant messaging, voicemail, calendar, call logs, memos, news, stocks, weather, and many other useful services." Sure, this critter was totally designed with the hospitality industry in mind, but don't tell us this couldn't be molded into a wicked widgets portal for the home.

[Wwhat @ Jan 9th 2009 3:55PM]

So here's my guess: every company that puts an atom CPU in a product gets a big bag of free money from intel, did I guess right? Because it's getting ridiculous.

[superhobo @ Jan 9th 2009 4:28PM]

Ridiculous, they pay for money!

[few @ Jan 9th 2009 3:55PM]

waow, this a beautiful phone

[Zomgrotfl @ Jan 9th 2009 3:56PM]

Why oh why is the horn part wired?

[wayne @ Jan 9th 2009 4:12PM]

Because it is design for the desk.

[Davie @ Jan 9th 2009 3:57PM]

Nice - SIP I suppose?

[yo @ Jan 9th 2009 4:04PM]

I kinda like how it's wired cuz i'm always losing my phone. That bitch ain't going no where.

[Jash Sayani @ Jan 9th 2009 4:21PM]

Atom based landline phones.... Wow!!

BTW, nice iPhone interface mockup! Does it have AppStore??

[superhobo @ Jan 9th 2009 4:27PM]

Atoms are everywhere.
And so are atoms.

[Valicore @ Jan 9th 2009 4:31PM]

So says Adam...

[brettnem @ Jan 9th 2009 4:37PM]

Come on, you can't visualize an app store for generic devices? It's inevitable. So they copied the look and feel of iPhone icons. Who cares?! it's got nice clean lines. Which is why so many people want to copy it.

Bash Apple all you want, but you have to admit, their stuff looks great and works. I think a lot of industrial designers out there could benefit from a little apple inspiration.

[Chubaka @ Jan 9th 2009 4:40PM]

Okay, this is very beautiful and all, but with all of those features and the inclusion of an Atom cpu, this is looking more and more to be a secondary computer. If this presumably designed for the office desk, where there will probably already be a computer, this device loses much of its novelty, seeing as a normal computer with the proper apps can do most of what this can. Unless of course someone happens to not have a computer, but can afford this piece of eye candy.

[steven @ Jan 9th 2009 6:49PM]

I was thinking of using this phone on the kitchen table. You can read your news without getting your laptop all greasy from your breakfast.

[Nacho PATA @ Jan 9th 2009 5:05PM]

OMG!!!

Rounded square icons == Apple Trademark

O RLY?

http://images.google.com/images?q=rounded%20square%20icon

Seems people all over the place are infringing on what is rightfully Apple's! World, bow down before your overlord (and plaintiff).

Jobs should sue the world (and hurry before he shrivels up from hormone imbalance).

[larryryan0824 @ Jan 9th 2009 5:15PM]

Jeez some of those icon look fimiliar? Oh becasue they are from the iPhone. God damn make your own icons, or alteast change something other than the color...

[Anticrawl @ Jan 9th 2009 5:21PM]

Was everyone on Engadget born in the 2000's?

[smiffy @ Jan 9th 2009 5:18PM]

What about mobility ? Enterprises want an FMC solution. It is a neat spiffy device, but current directions indicate a greater need for seamless mobility and elimination of desktop devices.

The number of mobile/SOHO workers that need a dual purpose device is definitely on the rise.

This would have been great 3-4 years ago, as an alternative to Polycom, Cisco, Nortel and Avaya desktop devices.

Too little, too late !

[marc @ Jan 9th 2009 10:57PM]

Everybody uses mobiles, and lots of people like deskphones because they are far superior in voice quality, as speakerphones, and with wireless headsets (bluetooth=shit compared to DECT office headphones). I agree some fusion of mobile+deskphone needs to happen.

[Al @ Jan 9th 2009 5:30PM]

So where is the camera? If this can't do video conferencing, then having that big screen is worthless.

[brian @ Jan 9th 2009 5:57PM]

agreed. for me to buy it, it would need to be compatible with skype high quality video conferecing. i believe that requires a dual core or better.

[Entourage @ Jan 9th 2009 6:12PM]

".........Ari Gold Speaking"

[allbridgesclosed @ Jan 9th 2009 6:16PM]

so, where do I buy one (or two...)

[Kamilion @ Jan 9th 2009 11:32PM]

... Wait, where's the camera?
What the heck is the point of a 1.6Ghz desk phone with a fancy big LCD without a CAMERA for videoconferencing?
Fortunately, since there's only a limited selection of northbridge chipsets to pair with an atom, it *HAS* to have USB2.0 -- the only question is, will the board be populated with USB ports or are we gonna have to get medieval like we had to with the 5-Port NSLU2 hack?
Cause we'll go there. Oh yeah. I will have me a videophone that I won't be able to use to call anyone cause nobody has a freaking videophone.

Weren't we predicting we would have videophones *60* years ago in the 1950s?!

And I mean, come on, we all know porn drives an industry like nothing else, we should have had 1-900-LoResSlut numbers in the 1990s!

At least 1.3MP UVC cams are cheap as heck at dealextreme. (Six bucks. Free Shipping.)

[sr @ Jan 10th 2009 10:18PM]

Add a detachable bluetooth headset and it's a done deal.

[oldfart @ Jan 20th 2009 10:49PM]

Apple didn't invent - they did a great job of packaging, and looking over the horizon... but really if you want to go back a bit, cavemen invented icons af all genres - piss off all this intellectual property crap, and give some credit to those people that try to make things 'better'.

BTW stone-age icons generall had rounded corners as well