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Linux Based IP Videophone

Posted by michael on from the phone-of-the-future-ha-ha-ha dept.

Meltoast writes "As reported in Communications Convergence Magazine, Innomedia has launched the MTA 3368 IP Videophone. It's 4-inch TFT color LCD can deliver video up to 768 kpbs and with a Linux based OS it supports video streaming, gaming, IM, HTTP, SNMP, TFTP, FTP and Telnet."

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  1. Video phones-- do people really want them? by xXunderdogXx · · Score: 1, Funny

    I mean, seriously. I answer my phone after doing all sorts of things and I'm not really sure I'd want my boss seeing them. Take, for example, the time he called while I was licking my phone.

    Had it been a videophone that could have been MIGHTY embarassing!

    1. Re:Video phones-- do people really want them? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 2, Funny

      absolutely

      I personally like to masturbate furiously while listening to the mellow tones of my personal phone bankers voice. if we had videophones, I'd hardly be able to keep THAT up now, would I?

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  2. don't panic by Rojo^ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any prototype for a video phone I've ever seen has the option to disable / enable video broadcasting. For normal use, you probably wouldn't have to show your face, but it certainly would put a new twist on phone sex =)

    Second thought. . . phone sex without video is kinda like having the lights off. Even I'm sexy with the lights off.

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  3. Re:Yet another... by richie2000 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could you hack it to run Windows on it?

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  4. I think the only real need by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    for these phones is to call up those robot dogs to see if they are chewing the furniture or using your shoes as a urinal.

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  5. Telemarketers! by WPIDalamar · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean I could moon the telemarketers that call? :)

  6. Re:accident waiting to happen by micq · · Score: 1, Funny

    >> I can see it now "Honey, why is a naked picture of Anna Kournikova set as the screensaver?"

    Uh, those damn hackers! They musta hacked our phone! Who would do such a thing? I only have eye's for you honey... yeah... that's it!

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  7. Since the only people... by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... who would buy a video phone would be single male geeks just like yourself, wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a mirror?

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