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CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LII: AT&T CEO scoffs at Verizon's "Any Apps, Any Device" plan {Engadget}
Dec 2nd 2007 10:36AM Oh God, here we go with the Java bashing againg!
Dude, it's just another application platform, and it works. Get over it.
Philips shows off health and wellness concepts at Simplicity Event {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2007 8:07PM WTF?! How are an iron and an espresso machine 'health and wellness' concepts?
Epson touts "all-in-one" LCD touchscreens {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2007 7:57PM Hospital emergency rooms, here we come!
Verizon rolls out "super-fast" 20/20 FiOS internet service {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2007 7:52PM Move.
Sell your freaking house and move three blocks. Life's too short, man.
T-Mobile bringing HotSpot @Home to your landlines {Engadget}
Aug 9th 2007 9:32PM This makes your home phones use VoIP and also supports VoIP operation for your UMA mobile phones.
UMA phones work either using 802.11 or GSM radio. When in 802.11 mode, the phone is a VoIP phone, when in GSM mode, the phone is a cell phone.
This is not a femtocell. It is a VoIP router. The cool thing is that it lets your home phones be known on the network via their own SIM cards that are held in the router.
T-Mobile bringing HotSpot @Home to your landlines {Engadget}
Aug 9th 2007 9:25PM Those phone plugs provide dial tone and other analog signals that make your home phones work properly. (The Internet connection doesn't provide any such stuff, it's all just 1s and 0s.)
The SIM cards are how your wired phones are identified... calls made to the phone number that T-mobile gives you for your wired phone will route to this router because the SIM card ties that number to your router. (They will probably let you port your existing home number over if you want to.)
So the short answer is: "Slide in your SIM card, plug in your phone, and, indeed, presto!"
T-Mobile bringing HotSpot @Home to your landlines {Engadget}
Aug 9th 2007 9:11PM I think the SIM cards are how your wired phones will get service.
UMA was designed for mobile phones, and the SIM cards in these phones define their identity in the network. So this is how the network know to route your number to the cell tower you're nearest to.
If you have a UMA-capable cell phone, when in range of this device (or any other open hot spot) your phone will register to the network that calls should now route through the Internet rather than over the cellular network.
In order to make this work for wired phones, you will need a SIM card in the router. That's why there are 2 phone line ports and two SIM slots; one for each. The SIM in the router tells the T-Mobile network to route calls to your 'wired' number to this router over the Internet. T-Mobile provides the phone number to these wired phone ports.
So, basically, the router contains up to two 'dummy' cell phones that actually use your wired phones as the audio input/output devices, and the router provides a dial tone and all the other required signaling to these wired phone ports.
