Linux-powered VoIP uber-phone does WiFi video conferencing

We're not sayin' we'd put one of these bad boys in our living room or anything, but adorning the board room table with a four-line VoIP phone that sports a built-in 3.5-inch LCD, webcam, and Zach Morris-style handset wouldn't be a half bad use of resources. The SysMaster Tornado M20 uber-phone does a lot more than hold down IP calls, as it also manages to handle video conferencing, IPTV, video- / audio-on-demand, internet radio, voicemail, email / chat / news, and local weather information. This conglomerate even touts a dual-core processor, 32MB of RAM, and 32MB of flash memory, and the integrated Ethernet jack, WiFi, RCA audio outs, and Linux-powered UI are all welcome additions. Of course, we've no idea if you can rig up Tetris on this thing and use the 4, 8, and 6 keys to control your pieces, but it'll only cost you $260 and a tick of your time to find out.

[Dan @ Jun 22nd 2007 12:34PM]

$20 says that it'll be used by CTU in the next season of 24. :-D

[daedalus @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:10PM]

::sigh::

you know you're an office drone when you get excited over shit like this


(but seriously... if you saw the garbage I'm working with, you'd understand... I mean for christ sake MCI hasn't been a company for how many years?!)

[randy @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:19PM]

I can't believe nobody has made a desk phone like this for bluetooth yet.

[Jamus @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:58PM]

Can you Skype with it? Or is it some proprietary VOIP setup?

[Christian Martin @ Jun 22nd 2007 2:03PM]

Cool, a phone with a camera that points straight up my nostril. I can see my business skyrocketing already...

[David Beauchamp @ Jun 22nd 2007 2:40PM]

@Jamus:

Funny you say it like that, this device supports SIP which is the standard VoIP protocol, while Skype is actually the proprietary one. This device will work with Asterisk, or any other BYOD VoIP provider, whilst Skype phones only work with Skype.

-teKuru

[Feckineejit @ Jun 22nd 2007 7:31PM]

Please stop using UBER! it means over! not super! there are plenty of english words that mean special.

[housetier @ Jun 23rd 2007 4:03AM]

I was going to give a lesson on the word über, but I'll leave that to dict.cc: http://www.dict.cc/?s=%FCber

[ethana2 @ Jun 22nd 2007 3:30PM]

Ha, ha. Stick it to the man. The sweetest home phone on the market runs Linux and uses voip.

Might we see any BSD or open solaris models?

Time to get rid of our inferior landline system. The internet age is here.

[ymous @ Jun 24th 2007 2:37AM]

we've actually had this phone in our office for a couple months. It was delayed and delayed and really doesn't work all that well. We were using it with Asterisk and can say this thing isn't priced badly but you get what you pay for. We use sip in our phone integrations and I can't say we liked this phone all that much.

Plus the manufacturer gave us the run around for like a month waiting to get it.

Don't get too excited about this phone...look elsewhere.