if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile to mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your unlimited ld at home, you could essentially get very cheap unlimited mobile calling... this was the point I was trying to make... Yes, it would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these smartphones and pda phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call...
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:43:41 -0500, Jay Milk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even better... Come home, leave the phone in the car knowing your > bluetooth gateway is only a few feet away dangling down from the garage > ceiling :) I already have bluetooth handsfree in the car, and it's > sweet -- no more missed calls due leaving the phone on vibrate. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:33 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general > happiness > > Interesting.... > > We use primicell's (nokia 22's) to break out mobile phone traffic at the > office. I know these are more like full blown mobile phones that u plug > directly into the pbx but similar idea. Would be cool to have a home > version to allow u to get similar functionality by just putting your > bluetooth mobile near your asterisk server ;-) > > ie. Come home, plonk phone down. walk off to another room - girlfriend > calls, asterisk picks it up and rings all phones in house... no annoying > ear bashing about why I didnt take my mobile with me and when I call her > I can do so on my dirt cheap mobile-mobile rate :-) > > On a similar note - has anyone got asterisk to work with the nokia/sony > PCMCIA GSM (or even 3G?) cards? - 3G would open up the Videophone thing > through asterisk - sure there is a very good technical reason why that > wouldnt work!!! > > Sam > > Jay Milk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23/09/2004 18:10:11: > > > When I installed my first home-PBX three years ago, I was looking at > > "cellsockets" -- devices which will accept certain cellular phones and > > > provide an RJ11 jack, generating the ring-voltage and recognizing > DTMF, > > which in turn makes your cell-phone look like a CO line. Pretty cool > > stuff, in theory, but it just didn't seem to be worth the cost, > > especially since it locks you to a particular cell-phone. > > > > Since then, I've moved to Asterisk. I looked at at cell-sockets again > > > recently, but they haven't really gotten any cheaper... And on top of > > that, I'd now require a precious FXO interface for *. > > > > I looked at some developer documentation for my particular phone (S/E > > T610) while connecting it to my PC via Bluetooth. For those who are > > unaware, all GSM phones have a built-in set of AT modem commands. Not > > > surprisingly, I was able to place calls as well as receive > > ring-indicators, caller-id information and call-progress information > via > > the virtual serial port that the phone provides over bluetooth. But > > what's more, I was also able to utilize my PC as a handsfree > > speakerphone -- and all this over bluetooth. > > > > As I see it, all the pieces are available -- we got full phone > control, > > some form of digital audio going back and forth, call-progress > > reporting. I know there's at least one bluetooth stack for linux, so > > *technically* we're "there", no? > > > > I foresee a chan_blue which allow Asterisk to utilize a bluetooth/GSM > > cellular phone as a CO line, connecting by nothing more than a $5 > > bluetooth dongle and 5ft of air. > > > > Who's up for the challenge? If there's enough interest in the > > community, I'll be the first to add a bounty on this -- it would be > > worth at least $100 to me to have this functionality. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents > DX 148400 WESTMINSTER 5 : 35 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3LR > Telephone 020 7593 5000 Fax 020 7593 5099 > Confidentiality > This email message and any attachments are confidential; they may be > subject to legal professional privilege and are intended for the named > recipient only. 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