Chris Matthieu on Tropo.com, great added comments by Tim Panton. Michael Graves, just back from NAB with a few notes. Karl Fife on WebOS (just kidding!)

Bad Wifi at the trade show, new Siemens Gigaset handsets and more DECT comments. Profiles on mobile devices, sharing books on Kindle, Nook, Android, iOS, etc.

Congratulations to wolrah, our winner!

As we approach the US Thanksgiving holiday we are given pause to reflect upon our many blessings. While many of us exist in a wideband realm where clarity of voice leads to universal understanding, there remain a great many who suffer through the narrowband reality of the past. These poor folk suffer not only a startling lack of clarity, they are typically tethered, bound to their toil by wires.

Gigaset Communications aims to give a hand to some poor unfortunate soul, bestowing upon them the gift of clarity*. This gift takes the form of a Gigaset S675IP SIP/DECT starter system. To further aid in the mobility of the downtrodden they also offer the S79H expansion handset, enhancing the basic set.

These tools, HDSP capable…or HDVoice capable for the followers of Plcm….promise to uplift up their users with both clarity of voice and mobility of action. Such outstanding clarity that they might understand The Words.

However, such clarity will not be bestowed upon the idle or laggard. It will be granted only to the one who proves themselves most worthy at the appointed time. A question will be asked. These gifts will be given to one of those who answer the question correctly.

Look to the mailing list. Watch for the signs. Then be on the call Friday, November 26th.

*For regulatory reasons this offer is restricted to North American listeners only.

S675IP and an A58H accessory handset

Thanks to Gigaset of North America, we are planning a new giveaway of a Gigaset wideband-capable SIP/DECT phone.

To win the Gigaset you will have to be in the IRC channel #voip-users-conference as well as on the conference.

The winner will need to identify a short piece of music and the album it comes from.

Be there!

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Thanks to Tony for arranging the A580IP giveaway contest. Congrats to regular Karl F for winning the phone!

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Michael Graves and I have both talked about how we think these phones are a revolution for the SoHo market. How will they be supported? Who will set them up, provision them, get them working with different  pbx and SIP providers? Michael’s most recent blog post talks about the Gigaset DE380IPR, the inexpensive wideband capable desk phone.

Our guest today is Anthony Stankus, Gigaset Communications product Manager for North America. The Gigaset IP DECT products which include: A580IP system (base and handset), S675IP system (base and handset), A58H accessory handset, S67H accessory handset, SL78H high-end accessory handset.

Tony will be with us on the ZipDX wideband conference bridge to answer these questions and any others you can collect.

More on these phones:

Latest mgraves.org on the new Gigaset phones

Graves On SOHO VoIP » Newsworthy: Siemens Gigaset S675IP

Alan Lord’s The Open Sourcerer.com

My own modest consumer review

Siemens Phones – voip-info.org

Steven Perich » Blog Archive » Siemens Gigaset IP phones

Siemens Gigaset S685IP VoIP phone (Personal Computer World)

DECT phones arrive

IRC Transcript 2009-07-10

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Recent Voip News & Commentary, Digium partners with FreePBX, SIP/DECT vs ATA+DECT for cordless phones, Karle Fife on the new Rhino failover BRI/PRI card, John Todd on “The Proxifier”, Darrick Hartman announced Astlinux 0.6 expected next week, includes Asterisk GUI 2.0 Digital Opsys draw for Astricon 08 exhibitors pass Many thanks to Michael Graves for stepping in!

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Well known for high-quality SIP phones this presentation will be an overview of their SIP phones and explanation of their new SIP-DECT enterprise scale cordless technology.

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Callerid, a short report about Astricon and 1.6 news – more next week. IPKall, what it’s about and where it’s going.