[EdLUG] Linux wifi phones that can plug into a UK phone socket

[Subhi S Hashwa]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, 16:31 Tahir Hafiz, <tahir.hafiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have moved to new abode - went for a Virgin media package deal to get
> internet, TV and phoneline as it was pretty much the same price as
> getting those things individually.
>
> I have not had a dedicated phone line socket for many, many years
> because I've just been purely using my mobile phone.
> I am wondering if there are any phones out there that can plug into a
> normal UK phone house socket (back of the virgin media internet
> modem/hub box in my case) and allow normal phone line calls, and wifi
> calling etc and are running Linux.
> Found one so far (I think, not sure if anyone can recommend it):
>
> https://www.internetvoipphone.co.uk/product_data/gigaset-dx800a-datasheet.pdf
>
> Bearing in mind that I am not really wanting to set-up a home asterisk
> server and play around with phones to such a great extent. Looking
> more for a fun end-user type appliance that has some extra features
> and is running linux.
> Therefore, are there any phone appliances that might be a fun addition
> to the new home and can even be ssh'd into perhaps that people have
> tried?
>

The closest thing to your huge list of requirements would be a dect phone
with voip and pstn ports. WiFi phones aren't great.

Have a look at Gigaset stuff like this

https://www.gigaset.com/en_en/gigaset-s850a-go-black/

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