You know...I wish I had more details, but the only
unit I ever saw was a beta at a tradeshow in Las Vegas
in '94 or '95 (those two years seem to blend together
in my mind for some reason) And the fact that they
weren't doing any "live" demos on it made it difficult
to get a decent look. Most of my knowledge came from a
Siemens rep who seemed like he didn't want to talk
about it. I had heard of only one other place that
implemented these phones and they didn't have any when
I went to visit (see my other email about this)
Sorry I dont have more details.
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- David Arnold <arnold@dstc.edu.au> wrote:
> -->"Ed" == Ed Kummel <tech_ed@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> Ed> Seimens created a desk phone that had a cradle
> that was slightly
> Ed> angled back that the Newt would slide into. It
> also had a
> Ed> microphone pickup that coinsided with the
> speaker on the
> Ed> Newt. Obviously, the power pins coinsided with
> the placement of
> Ed> the silver tabs...What made this design unique
> was that your
> Ed> Newt was now an integral part of the corporate
> phone system.
>
> cute. almost tempting to hack this up ...
>
> Ed> It even had a connector that plugged into the
> DIN
> Ed> connection.
>
> how did this work? the DIN was on the side, and was
> not easy to get a
> plug into, even manually.
>
> i suppose a similar thing would work for the 2k
> series, but when i
> played around with it, i never found a happy way to
> get the door over
> the interconnect socket to open reliably. it was a
> bit sad to make
> you do that before docking ...
>
> anyone got one of those phones? i'm intrigued now
> ;-)
>
>
>
> d
>
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