Hardware Hacking
Sep. 3rd, 2008 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furrbearHacking the Vonage V-Phone
The Vonage V-Phone is a bright orange 256Meg Flash Drive with a built in microphone and headphone socket.
They currently sell for $9.97 plus tax at Radioshack (Model: V256-USB11-VR, Catalog #: 43-117) although they are a little hard to find in the stores. I bought the last one in my nearest store and although the website said they were in stock at several other stores within a 5 mile radius of my apartment none of them admitted to having any after i walked to each in turn (yes i know i should have rung beforehand but it was a nice day outside and I could do with the exercise) so I ended up ordering two more off the RS website and paying the shipping, handling and the tax. This worked out to be $28 and some change. Still you can't go wrong as a quick google showed them to be around $20 to $40 each on Amazon, Best Buy and Circuit City etc.
My original idea was to format the flash drive to wipe out the Vonage software and to install linux and windows versions of Skype and a SIP softphone like Zoiper (probably against the EULA, TOS, License and about every other possible restriction a slimely corporate weasel can devise on something I have paid good money for and by rights should be mine to do as I wish with although they think otherwise but ssshhhhhh I won't tell if you don't) on it however it turns out that the V-Phone has several problems that make it kind of useless for what I wanted to do with it and in fact cause it to not really work as it was intended anyway.
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Date: 2008-09-04 12:46 am (UTC)*drip*
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:57 am (UTC)How you doin'?
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Date: 2008-09-05 12:08 am (UTC)Peritoneal port blocked with scar tissue, so no more peritoneal for 12-18 months. Training and getting set up for home hemo.
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Date: 2008-09-09 01:42 am (UTC)It's a 256M memory stick. You can get a 1G for $10 these days.
And that it has a USB audio card is trivial too (as those are available for under $10 as well).
I guess as a project it would be interesting... but it doesn't seem "reasonable" really.