Accton “FON Ready” Phones
Accton has great designers. Look at this WiFi phone. FON will bundle this phone with our Fonera box and we will sell it in two versions: the Skype version (provided that Skype authorizes its sale) and the SIP version, which is ready. I had a chance to play with it when I was in Taipei and I loved it!
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Posted by martinvives - June 20, 2006 10:59 pm - #
This is great! How much will it cost?
Posted by roy - June 20, 2006 11:30 pm - #
Nice design, would look nice beside my ibook (same white/grey). Maybe it’s a good idea to becoma a mvno Martin and offer a cheap wifi/gsm set?
Posted by Christian von der Ropp - June 21, 2006 12:22 am - #
The minimalist and clean design is very nice! But apparently a lot of the front surface is wasted, that could be used for bigger keys or a larger display. Will non-Asian fingers be able to hit those keys precisely?
Posted by Dan - June 21, 2006 12:27 am - #
great looking, excellent promise but product page broken on accton website. I wonder what the regular price is.
Posted by Christian von der Ropp - June 21, 2006 12:58 am - #
After giving some more thought about the WLAN-phone, I believe that carrying around another phone when leaving home isn’t worth at current hotspot density. If the phone had an integrated mp3-player, like the AVM Mini (http://www.avm.de/en/press/announcements/2006/2006_03_09_04.php3), it would be much more useful and we could even have live streaming where WLAN is available.
Further I wonder if it supports WPA-encryption.
Posted by Killy_the_frog - June 21, 2006 12:02 pm - #
what is the “Fonera box” ? can we have more explaination ?
thank you !!
Posted by Martín Varsavsky - June 21, 2006 5:44 pm - #
Don´t know how much it will cost yet. Around $100 I think.
Posted by Martín Varsavsky - June 21, 2006 6:13 pm - #
I agree Christian! Great device!!
Regards,
Posted by yunuen - June 22, 2006 8:23 am - #
any idea when these will roll out? and many people arent hooked on skaype so 2 versions is a good idea.
can we buy them direct from you?
i be interested in about 10-20 to start possibly…
im still wiating for sept with the new boxes however.
Posted by Martín Varsavsky - June 22, 2006 10:40 pm - #
Yunuen,
They should be out in September.
Regards.
Posted by Remi - July 2, 2006 12:21 pm - #
FON IN NIGERIA!!!
Highly motivated by your enterprise.