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Resurrected Full-Screen VoIP Phones

Posted by timothy on from the device-of-the-future-of-the-past dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looking for a suitable VoIP phone, I came across these Full-Screen Thin-Client Phones. Not only do they do voice, but they also have a 480x640 screen running at 65K colors and run a number of apps remotely via VNC. They seem to allow a lot more functionality than normal phones, and look really cool too. The site says they have 70 phones running in their office. This seems the way forward for telephony-computer convergence in the 21st century. A document at the end of the page explains their approach and has some cool pictures as well."

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  1. Great... Another thin client for the home. by stephenisu · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fire a up a server with multiple x-windows sessions, put these around the house.

    Sprinkle in a HTPC..

    add a pinch of x10

    You have a hella integrated house.

    Actually the HTPC could be the server.. sweet.

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  2. Finally by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With one of these, why would I need a "tablet PC"? Just give me VNC windows to remote servers, with cut/paste between my windows. All I want near me is a multimedia client, anyway - all the unique data and compute horsepower should be on networked servers I can hit from anywhere I login. Are we there yet?

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  3. Prototypes? by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article only contains a few sentences, so it's hard to tell either way, but I get the impression these are prototypes left over from AT&T Research. In that case this is hardly a product you can buy off the shelf, which is the impression the Slashdot story gives.

    Dan East

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  4. I Want My AT&T by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This stuff at AT&T Cambridge was all running in 2001, before AT&T shut down the lab. It all seems like an extremely easy to use system, made of standard protocols and formats that could plug into all our other systems. Why did it die? Why do companies like AT&T collapse after investing time, money and brains into this kind of innovation, and bringing forth only more complicated phonebills?

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