Cloud Telecomputer Glass Slaps Android Onto An Awesome Touchscreen Desk Phone
We’ve seen Androidon MIDs, Androidon PMPsand of course Androidon smartphones, so it should come as no surprise that the humble landline phone is next. Thing is, Cloud Telecomputer don’t seem to have received the memo about your desk phone being humble, astheir Glass designrocks an 8-inch full-color touchscreen, HD audio, Bluetooth connectivity and desktop computer integration.
That means such niceities as touch-to-dial, support for various VoIP clients and native noise cancellation and DSP, together with power-over-ethernet and visual voicemail. It’s also capable of querying web directories such as LinkedIn during calls, so you can check up on a contact’s credentials while you’re chatting with them.
If that last talent didn’t make it clear, the Glass is intended for business desks rather than on the telephone table in your hall at home. Still, we’d like to think that Android could find its way to home media hub-phones such asVerizon’s Hubor theiriver Wave. Who knows, maybe our wish will come true; we’re reminded of the rumors of a T-Mobile Android-based home-phone/netslate, tipped to dropsometime in early 2010.
[viaElectricpig]
