I'm looking for a USB phone with SIP, that does NOT need any software for a computer to download, .ie...I can walk up to any broadband computer plug in the phone and get dial tone.
I see that there are Wi-fi phones out that allows you to connect like this today, but they seem to skip over the USB version.
Does anyone know of any phones ?
I think the problem is that you are asking to plug into a USB port on a random computer that is probably not set up to act as a router to put the device on the Internet. There are routers with USB ports, but Ethernet is much more common.
Impossible. The USB phone will always be only a hardware part of the solution that uses a "softphone" or, in other words, a piece of software to operate. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to build SIP protocol into their next version of Win and get a piece of this VoIP pie by offering the service to Win users (why wouldn't they?). But then, again, it will only work in Win environment the way you wanted it.
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Where do I get information on these?
If you intend to attach to a computer's USB port to obtain connections out into the world without supporting software or configurations in the PC I can inform you that such a device does not exist, because no PC operating systems supports this.
Some Linux variants ship with such code; but it must be explicitly turned on by the system administrator; as it would be a large security hole to open such connections without authorization.
No windows version currently ships with such software; although you can talk only through browser software.
No, but I know of several other solutions that can help you obtain similar objectives; e.g. a device that connects to Ethernet anywhere and gives you a port with dialtone. I even sell such things; as well as dialtone. I will not make further commercials here, but anyone here can feel free to inquire within an E-mail.
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Morten Reistad
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