2006 20
Accton “FON Ready” Phones
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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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roy on June 20, 2006 ·
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?
Christian von der Ropp on June 21, 2006 ·
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?
Dan on June 21, 2006 ·
great looking, excellent promise but product page broken on accton website. I wonder what the regular price is.
Christian von der Ropp on June 21, 2006 ·
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.
Killy_the_frog on June 21, 2006 ·
what is the “Fonera box” ? can we have more explaination ?
thank you !!
Martín Varsavsky on June 21, 2006 ·
Don´t know how much it will cost yet. Around $100 I think.
yunuen on June 22, 2006 ·
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.
Remi on July 2, 2006 ·
FON IN NIGERIA!!!
Highly motivated by your enterprise.
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martinvives on June 20, 2006 ·
This is great! How much will it cost?