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OpenFrame Platform acts like a landline-locked iPhone
Are we detecting a hint of desperation from those companies still making landline phone equipment? Maybe it’s just a coincidence that the OpenFrame Platform from OpenPeak has a piano-black touchscreen with icons that display that familiar iPhoney shininess and rounded-off shape. The frame is the mother ship for those wireless phones you see here, destined to be sold in early 2009 by a telco near you for a dear price of between $200 and $300.
Now all OpenPeak has to do is convince developers to crank out clever applications to reside behind those eye-candy icons, giving you iPhone-like Internet-spiked goodness all over the house. Or, you could just carry your iPhone in your pocket like lots of people are doing as they eschew land lines altogether and call it good. For those of us not quite ready to ditch those old-timey remnants of Ma Bell, how about creating an app for this OpenFrame that interfaces with the iPhone?
OpenPeak, via Wired Gadget Lab
By csven at 1:42 PM ON 08/21/08
For when companies think "design" is limited to things that are purty.
By budgethero at 2:11 PM ON 08/21/08
......no, seriously. does Apple pay you?!
if not, you were being a real ihole when you wrote this. the Instinct by samsung looks like an iphone knock-off. no harsh words for them? and couldn't you have just told us that it goes on the internet to do this stuff and these things instead of pointing out it's iphone similarities, hoping we catch-on. you know, like you do for everything else.
and could you at least be a little more sensitive to the family or individual who can afford a full computer and/or broadband? or at least not refer to them like they are arcane or backwards?
By GT at 12:40 PM ON 08/23/08
I see tons of applications for this. Use VOIP and add a cell phone app that can connect to this you can have awesome interactivty in an area where your reception isn't so good (ie many homes have crappy reception). Not only that this thing looks like the hardware could easily be upgraded instead of buying a new $400 phone every year you can expand this with little cost. Expand it to video conferencing, hell the possibilities are nearly endless BECAUSE its not portable.
These type of phone have been around a lot longer then the iPhone has BTW, and honestly this is just another design in a slew of land-line (read dependable) screen phones.
By csven at 1:07 PM ON 08/23/08
To clarify my own comment, when I said "design" I was referring to the "OpenFrame Design" listed under "Innovative Design", which isn't really "open" in the sense of an OpenMoko and doesn't seem particularly innovative to me. All we get is "Thin styling with a large capacitive touch LCD panel" and "Advanced Capabilities in a stylish design". That's a huge letdown from my perspective.
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