CAT | iPhone Asterisk
With the release of the Apple iPhone in Canada this week I finally broke down and got one. I will be releasing a new build of Asterisk for the iPhone as soon as I get the phone, jailbreak it, and compile again. Sometime next week there should be a new release out.
Stay tuned!
A few people were asking me for a screenshot of iPhone Asterisk in action, so here it is:
I got an email tonight from a member of the Toronto Asterisk Users Group asking me what was the point of putting Asterisk on the iPhone, and I thought I’d share my initial thoughts:
First off, the project started for me as a way to play with the cross compiling toolchain for the iphone, and since Asterisk is a program I use and have written patches for in the past, it seemed like a logical choice for the first application to attempt to port. But after having it running for a few hours, I now can see it as a solid state asterisk box with 8 gigs of storage for $399 that is USB powered, so in effect, it is a fully portable PBX that doesn’t require a lot of power. Further, I could see cases were you would want to use it for demos (easier to move than a full system) or maybe for doing some IAX -> SIP trunk conversion while you are on the road. The uses are endless in my mind – if people use Asterisk on the WRT54G router, why not the iPhone?
This blog is currently under construction as most of my time right now is being spent on my port of Asterisk to the iPhone, but I figured a blog might be the better place to start posting the small updates on the development effort as it progresses. While I work on creating the rest of the blog, you can check out the page for the iphone asterisk port.
