Revolution Telephony

[Dar Scott]

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote:

> May I add this to the list:
>
> <http://www.megaphoneco.com>
>
> Their new offerings are right-on for what the thread seems to be 
> looking
> for.

Yes.  MegaPhone and PhonePro are back. ( And PhonePro is a lot cheaper 
than it was years ago.)

And MegaPhone is controllable with AppleEvents (AppleScript), so a 
stack can control it.  I don't know if such a combination would have 
the power of PhonePro, but it might.

But Apple has crippled the internal modem to the point that just about 
all MegaPhone would be able to do with it is dial out and I think it 
can't even do that under Classic.  You need to get external phone 
hardware.  Or find an old 840AV.  (As mentioned earlier, we can already 
dial with Revolution.)

The current version (9) does not work on OS X except somewhat under 
Classic.  I get the impression that the MegaPhone folks thought that 
10.2 was going to have telephony support.  Maybe it will eventually.  
Version 10 of MegaPhone for OS X may come out then.

I'd keep an eye out for Bluetooth developments.  There seem to be 
wireless phones and PDAs with Bluetooth.  And cordless stereo 
earphones.  I haven't seen ones with mics but I expect they will be out 
soon.  I have seen a couple Bluetooth POTS adaptors, but that area 
seems immature.

And on IP phone standardization.

I don't know much about what is going on these days, but it would be 
great if Revolutionaries can be part of telephony or at least the 
personal telephony niche, whatever that is.

Dar Scott