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New iPhone Asterisk build coming soon!

mgamble — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:16:16 +0000

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!

First Screenshot!

mgamble — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:25:53 +0000

A few people were asking me for a screenshot of iPhone Asterisk in action, so here it is:

The question of “why?”

mgamble — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:50:21 +0000

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?

Welcome!

mgamble — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:41:14 +0000

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.