Speakal introduces Windows 7 office phone |
We’ve seen desk phones powered by Android, but this is probably the first we’ve seen that is powered by Microsoft’s Windows 7. Speakal is showing the device off at CES and it is dubbed the BTS8. The operating system allows users to manage and record phone calls, answer emails and even video chat thanks to the integrated webcam and Skype.
It also features a web browser, it can receive faxes, SMS text messaging, media player, contact management, calendar and VGA output. The company’s CEO says you can save up to 90% of the power regularly used by a desktop computer.





The DECT phone, designed by Italian Stefano Giovannoni, combines some very nice design with advanced functions. The phone features a 65,000 color OLED display, as well as preloaded backgrounds and ringtones.
The Soda Cup phone is a bit more stealthy then the average hamburger phone. The cord is the only thing that gives it away as a phone. If they had made a cordless model, it would fool everybody.
Motorola has some new digital cordless phones, the D10 and D11. Both feature an innovative design that we haven’t really seen before. If the picture above is any indication it can turn the steam from your coffee into a weird hovering alien creature.
Ooma’s Telo is the first dedicated phone that lets users use both a cordless handset and a matching router to make unlimited calls within the US as well as free international calls, but there’s a catch, the recipient has to be an Ooma owner as well. Ooma plans to use the Internet for its range of services including caller ID and ringtones, the ability to talk to a computer while updating contacts remotely and playing voice mail away from the phone. It will even send address information instantly whenever you place a 911 call for emergencies. You’re going to need a reliable and fast broadband connection. The Ooma Telo will retail for $250.
This is the kind of phone that will appeal to two types. Women who have closets full of way too expensive shoes, and those who have a foot fetish. Of course they made it pink. Women love pink right? Just like they love high heel shoes. No doubt made by a man, but pink enough for a woman. You freaky shoe/foot fetishists will enjoy caressing it and rubbing it all over your face, even licking it’s length. Which is disturbing to the rest of us, so please stop. But if you must, the price is $22. Just realize that pink shoe phones are not acceptable to society.
If you’re a company that is still making landline phones, you have to come up with something that’s gonna make people want them. Like mimicking the iPhone for instance. Could be coincidence. Maybe. The OpenFrame Platform from OpenPeak sure looks a lot like Apples wonder phone. The frame is the center piece for the wireless phones.
The Iocell Contents Phone looks pretty cool, but it has a big mouth, like that one friend of yours. It doesn’t keep things to itself, since it contains within it a hard disk which can be used for sending your conversations anywhere on the web. 




Normally we give traditional wireless home phones about as much attention around here as talking moose heads on the wall, but when the New York Times points out one which might be cool we have to check it out. They in fact seem to be right – the forthcoming GE Premiere DECT 6.0 28821FJ3 has a nifty GOOG-411 button centered for you to press for business information calls.