It may not be the first to come up with the bright idea of putting Android on a
desk phone-esque device, but upstart Could Telecomputers may well be the most ambitious, with it boasting that its new Glass platform "makes the desk phone relevant again," and is "smarter and more powerful than your 'smart cell phone.'" To that end, the company has basically paired a full-fledged, 8-inch Android-based MID with a plain old corded phone, which will let you do things like dial numbers directly from your Outlook address book, pair up a cellphone via Bluetooth and, of course, take advantage of a whole range of Android apps that should put most other internet-connected desk phones to shame. As you probably picked up, however, this is still a platform and not an actual product just yet, but Cloud Telecomputers does have some pretty heavy backers behind it, and it "anticipates" that the first phones should be available sometime in the first quarter of 2010 for between $599 and $699.
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posted August 20th 2009 4:04PM
So pretty cheap then
Does it have a browser? Can I surf porn with it? Yes? Ok, get me one.
1 = one :)
Time to play Tetris on my phone all over again...
Could -> Cloud
BEWARE THE CLOUD!!!!
BEWARE THE COULD!!!!
Ah yes, upstart Could Telecomputers, http://www.cloudtelecomputers.com/index.html
hehehe...
Not sure why I need 2nd computer on my desk. But it looks like its nice widget viewer. I hope I won't have to type emails on it.
Imagine now that instead of a fix display they do it removable, a web tablet Neat !!!!
I kind of want one. Does it do videochat too?
A spelling mistake makes Engadget seem more human..and less like HAL (I'm sorry i can't let you misspell)
Oh Engadget how thee speakth to me..... :P
I don't know about all of you, but I have a computer on my desktop with a big monitor, right next to my small functional phone. Why would I want this?
Amen.
Add a camera and make this a videophone. And then we have something...
Since it sits aside of a PC in an office, it does have a video conference button that controls the conference from the phone, but uses the display and camera of the PC.
Since it sits aside of a PC in an office, it does have a video conference button that controls the conference from the phone, but uses the display and camera of the PC.
sounds cool and all, but CORDED? All this technology, and it's still behind the 90's in that regard.
That's the first thing I noticed as well. If they're going corded, they might as well change that touch dial into a rotary.
people still use corded phones?
brix were shat
IF this integrated with our Asterisk system, I'd buy 10 tomorrow. Those are exactly what a 'future' phone should be.
it does run with asterisk. that was the first test.
jim from cloud