Wi Fi Handset

Posts: 282 · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject:

reebok wrote:

oh my gosh
was this a joke?

Yeah, what a surprise, a wireless phone that works in your house. Whoopee!!

Posts: 103 · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject: F3000

How does the F3000 work? If I were to buy one, how do you set it up to work with an existing Vonage account?

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

no one knows since it's not an option. right now the only option would be to buy a softphone, but they may have different plans for it when it comes out.

Posts: 31 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 31

linux_mofo wrote:

tzarcone wrote:

They only have 1 months left before they are late on now 5 dates they released. Keep an eye out in Jan they might update with yet another date.

Oh, man the F3000 is already shipping in a couple weeks. It's a flip phone with a color screen and wifi-roaming for $210 retail. You're still drooling for a '90s-style cell phone brick that's "discounted" to something slightly less than $100, and perhaps with an on-going monthly fee?? Wink

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Check it out :'p

http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=1193

Hmmm, Vonage's F1000 WiFi "beta" program didn't go so well, I'm guessing.

Phil

Just think if Vonage starts to beta test that we might have it in about another year. By that time something even better will come out lol. They are more interested in marketing than pleasing thier existing customers. I think Vonage actually is the only Voip company without call blocking, and other options everyone has been complaining about for years.

When you read the reviews it was Vonage to be the first for WiFi now they aren't they can't even get it out after 5 release dates that have fallen through. 6th is on the way cause says by end of year and that is 30 days away. Just don't hold your breath other Voip can handle SIP which means any phone can be used like cisco and stuff. But with SIP that means you can move around from company to company with no hassle. No waiting for an adapter no need if you have a SIP compatible phone, but if you have a SIP compatibale phone or router it won't work on Vonage

Posts: 2251 · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

Here is a little more info on the Vonage Wi-Fi phone.

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 29, 2005 Posts: 5

dconnor wrote:

Here is a little more info on the Vonage Wi-Fi phone.

Ouch, not very flattering:

Quote:

...it’s easy to mistake UTStarcom’s F1000 handset (utstar.com) for a low-end cell phone.

There are four things that are/could make users unhappy:

- Vaporware (it's been a long time now)

- You have to pay for the phone

- You have to pay extra monthies to make it work

- The phone is an older generation phone

I don't know about some others here, but a year ago, I would have paid for the phone, an additional monthly to make it work, and touted it to friends.

Now, it would seem laughable to pay for it, upsetting to pay an additional monthly fee, and head-scratching that they are entering the Voip wifi game with a previous gen phone. The fact that it's been vaporware up to this point is rather fustrating to boot.

Oh, well, sorry, sorry to vent. I'm probably preaching to the choir.

On a positive note, I've had a bit of fun with Asterisk at work (http://www.asterisk.org). Run Voip phones as extensions (even to the home), interconnect similar PBX's over the network, connect to legacy hardware via PCI cards, etc. Excluding hardware (a PC is all, if you aren't connecting to land-lines or legacy equipment), it's free. Fun to play with for geeks like me. =')

-Phil

Posts: 282 · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:21 am Post subject:

From Engadget.com:

It looks like UTStarcom’s retro-cell designed F1000 WiFi Voip phone carried by Vonage is in for an update. While we don’t have any details directly from UTStarcom or Vonage on this, voipsupply.com is offering a $210 pre-order of the F3000 802.11b/g clamshell with 65K color 128x160 LCD with mid-Decemeber shipping date. In addition to 64/128bit WEP support, the F3000 also introduces WPA/MD5 authentication and is expected to be fully SIP compliant according to Tom’s Networking, though, oddly, this is not in the spec listing.
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I particularly like the line "F1000 WiFi Voip phone carried by Vonage".

I guess 'carried' and 'sold by' are two different things! Confused

Posts: 31 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 31

ChrisFix wrote:

From Engadget.com:

It looks like UTStarcom’s retro-cell designed F1000 WiFi Voip phone carried by Vonage is in for an update. While we don’t have any details directly from UTStarcom or Vonage on this, voipsupply.com is offering a $210 pre-order of the F3000 802.11b/g clamshell with 65K color 128x160 LCD with mid-Decemeber shipping date. In addition to 64/128bit WEP support, the F3000 also introduces WPA/MD5 authentication and is expected to be fully SIP compliant according to Tom’s Networking, though, oddly, this is not in the spec listing.
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I particularly like the line "F1000 WiFi Voip phone carried by Vonage".

I guess 'carried' and 'sold by' are two different things! Confused

Also like the one that it works with Vonage Voip, if that is the case why wasn't it out the last five times they said they were going to release it. Must not be working all that well if it takes beta of over a year.

So far they had out the f1000, than an upgrade to the f1000 and now an 3000 the one Vonage is working on it old news and not worth ANYTHING now. They really missed the boat on this one even cell phones are now starting to come with wifi than only one phone not 2

Posts: 2251 · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:14 am Post subject:

And a tad more info about the Vonage Wi-Fi Phone

Enjoy,

Posts: 31 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 31

dconnor wrote:

And a tad more info about the Vonage Wi-Fi Phone

Enjoy,

So they are now out? Says launches not will launch.
But thier site htt://www.vonage.com/wifi still says beta