asterisk users - Nov 2010 - Asterisk on smartphone?

Hello

Some SOHO prospects only have a cellphone and I was wondering if
someone had investigate running Asterisk on a smartphone, to perform
tasks such as IVR, CID rewriting, voice-mail, notifications through
e-mails, etc.?

Thank  you.

Do you mean, using the smart phone as an Asterisk server, or as a device (i.e.,
an extension)?

I think running Asterisk in server mode would run up against blocking of SIP
traffic on most voice networks. Also, you would probably run into issues with
battery life, and with availability (what if you are flying and have to turn off
your smart phone - suddenly the phone number wouldn't go to the IVR or voice
mail any more). I would also be concerned about constantly changing IP
addresses, firewalling within the carrier network, ...

As an extension, I believe there are some softphone implementations available
for Android (they might still run up against blocked SIP traffic, though).

Alternatively, you can probably also use "follow me" or plain old
forwarding to get calls to the cell phone, and DNDI for dialing outgoing calls.

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Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk on smartphone?

Hello

Some SOHO prospects only have a cellphone and I was wondering if someone had
investigate running Asterisk on a smartphone, to perform tasks such as IVR, CID
rewriting, voice-mail, notifications through e-mails, etc.?

Thank  you.


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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:08:36AM +0100, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Some SOHO prospects only have a cellphone and I was wondering if
> someone had investigate running Asterisk on a smartphone, to perform
> tasks such as IVR, CID rewriting, voice-mail, notifications through
> e-mails, etc.?
I believe someone has already built Asterisk on Maemo (for N900) -

 
http://my-maemo.com/software/applications.php?name=Asterisk&fldAuto=1081&faq=37

Sadly, no support for DAHDI ;-(

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> Some SOHO prospects only have a cellphone and I was wondering if
> someone had investigate running Asterisk on a smartphone, to perform
> tasks such as IVR, CID rewriting, voice-mail, notifications through
> e-mails, etc.?
While I can run Asterisk on my Nokia N900, I have to say it's purely for 
my own benefit and to be a bit geeky...

Personally people like this are cheakskates and not worth your time and 
effort in trying to implment a solution for them unless they're going to 
spend 1000's with you.

Gordon

Thanks everyone for the feedback.