OpenPeak intros Atom-powered ProFrame VoIP phone
By Darren Murph 
posted January 9th 2009 3:48PM
posted January 9th 2009 3:48PM
posted January 9th 2009 3:48PM
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Nice - SIP I suppose?
waow, this a beautiful phone
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.
Ridiculous, they pay for money!
Why oh why is the horn part wired?
Because it is design for the desk.
I kinda like how it's wired cuz i'm always losing my phone. That bitch ain't going no where.
Atom based landline phones.... Wow!!
BTW, nice iPhone interface mockup! Does it have AppStore??
Atoms are everywhere.
And so are atoms.
So says Adam...
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.
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.
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.
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).
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...
Was everyone on Engadget born in the 2000's?
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 !
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.
So where is the camera? If this can't do video conferencing, then having that big screen is worthless.
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.
".........Ari Gold Speaking"
so, where do I buy one (or two...)
... 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.)
Add a detachable bluetooth headset and it's a done deal.
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