MSI caught showing off VoIP video conferencing phone running Android
By Richard Lai 
posted March 6th 2010 11:07PM
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Now this is awesome. Very Sci-Fi :)
@ScienceProUSAcom not that great. what exactly does all in 1 mean>? all i saw was setting a background and a wireless phone
@emopoops
every party needs a pooper...
It definitely has that Total Recall vibe.
And I'm absolutely getting a flashback to early 90's videophones...
@nicholiservia
I use GTalk video calling on my N900 all of the time. If carriers would work on a cross network solution, or there were a standard for land and mobile lines, it'd be more widespread.
my country will be using voip phone and perhaps if its out, i will get it. way to go android.
@ppsaoda
Your country what?
Are you sure you know what VOIP is?
Is yours the only country on the planet with broadband access but not Skype or other Voip providers ?
@Plexus
He must be a leader from a third world country. Lol
@Plexus malaysia, we will launch FTTH and VOIP phone this month. including iptv
Not bad, but the screen should have been landscape, as people take more landscape photos than portrait ones. Also, what's up with the sideways buttons?
@tonicboy
portrait is almost always used for video calls - hence the portrait screen.
@noodles2k
Wrong. The vast majority (if not 100%) of webcams (which in turn make up the vast majority of video calls) are used in landscape mode by default.
@tonicboy
I believe he was stating that the hardware formfactor is almost always portrait. Display video on the top half and info on the bottom half.
@noodles2k
my N900 does video calls in landscape. It'll work either way.
Wish we had these in the office instead of the Cisco VoIP phones. Really hope Cisco and/or Avaya don't pull an apple on them. Doubt it, but I've seen alot of redicilous stuff over the past few days...
@PBB what would they sue them for?
@emopoops
There IS nothing to sue them over, that was my point, but that's never stopped anybody...
DECT? Really? It's an IP phone; why not Wi-Fi?
@jgp
You know WiFi uses IP's too... Not just magic.
@Jaylittles531
Yup... first thing I thought was, LAN port? Why? How about 802.11 ..?? Add a $10 wifi card in it and have it no longer require being DECT or any of that other garbage... where you have to register handsets etc. With WiFi, you can have nearly unlimited handsets.
@TrumanHW Nonono, best guess is the handset itself uses DECT to talk back to the base and you use the LAN to connect back to the VoIP backends.
Dont show Steve Jobs.... We will end up with an iConference
@Jaylittles531
...or end up suing them too
For the memory of a lifetime... recall, recall, recall (recall recall...)
anything with an electrical current can run android
@(Unverified) even a tazer
@lv2bll54
or a toaster
"[...] if MSI's prominence can win over Skype's [...]"
I don't think this is much of an issue. Skype is a big winner for the consumer at home, but does not take a big part in an office infrastructure. This product looks to be targeted for the office use and would probably integrate very well on a corporate SIP/IAX PBX.
Really? No PoE?
And this is why my next Android will have to have a front cam.
Unfortunately, the only front-cam equipped Android phone is the Xperia X10...
@TareG
shoulda got a Nokia. Had video conferencing cams since 2006...
Man, this would be nice to replace the crummy Cisco I have to have on my desk.
These pretty much littered the floor at CES...why's it news now?
I'm Hoping someone comes out with a Android based universal remote
would be sweet !!! ya sure they can develops apps for this purpose
but real remote with buttons and a touchscreen will be so much better !
For some reason I love the German language. Kind of understand a little bit too. I enjoyed that lol.
If Google were every to give free or near-free calling w/ Google Voice I'd buy this in a heartbeat. Pickup the phone, use touch screen to scroll to contact you want, "click" it and then let Google Voice do its thing.
I think harassing fine ass secretaries just got better. Someone gimmie an amen.
oh shit, there's "i" in VOIP... the patent troll approaches
Wonder if it will be cheaper than a netbook... price often kills such devices imo.
"Household use"
I don't about you, but I'm sceptical if there is such a market amongst the general public. I mean, companies have been trying things like this for years.
The great thing about the phone is people don't have to see you.
voip calls for free !
pstn and isdn tehnology are history
world need to upgrade all to digital
There's also a english video for all the people that are not german : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLLl3bLvcSU
They can take the buttons from my phone, if they can get it out of my cold, dead hands.
I want one
The phone looks very interesting but one look at the headpiece tells me the audio will be horrible.
Why do they always do that with new Android devices? How hard is it to make a wallpaper that fits the entire screen with no black bars, instead of one that screams "basement project"?