What could you do with a home phone on FiOS? According to industry icon John Sculley, a heck of a lot. LAS VEGAS—Back in the mid-1980s, then-Apple CEO John Sculley dreamed of a device called the Knowledge Navigator: a handheld
tablet that could access a worldwide hypertext database of all human knowledge through an easy-to-use interface. View Slideshow See all (11) slides MoreSome might argue that Sculley's sometime-partner, sometime-nemesis Steve Jobs achieved that
goal with his iPhone. With his latest project. OpenPeak's OpenFrame, Sculley is bringing the vision home, literally. The OpenFrame is a home phone boosted to iPhone-like abilities, designed to be used with services like Verizon's FiOS. (The sample
device we saw had Verizon branding.) It features a large, bright touch screen with a very iPhone-like interface of cuddly icons and touch keypads, as well as some standard phone handsets you can use to just make calls. "[The OpenFrame] does a
lot of what Alan Key and I hoped the Knowledge Navigator would do … just 18 years later," Sculley said. Sculley is OpenPeak's mentor figure, but the OpenFrame's real father is Dan Gittelman, OpenPeak's chief executive. Sculley may not
have worked well with Steve Jobs at Apple, but he has the utmost respect for Jobs' product design philosophy. The OpenFrame was designed like an Apple product, he says: design and user interface came first. "You start with the user experience,
you do great industrial design, and then it's an end-to-end system," he said. That system brings a lot of functionality to your living room, kitchen or bedroom. By touching buttons on the OpenFrame's panel, you can sync it with the various
contact lists and calendars in your life, view TV schedules, send IM or SMS, check the weather, surf the Web, watch streaming video, play music or do a range of other things. One OpenFrame model doubles as a bedside alarm clock, down to having a
giant snooze button on the top. Sound quality over VOIP will also be a high priority – it has to sound like a landline for it to be successful, executives said. The devices are based on Freescale MX31 processors, with two 600-MHz ARM11 chips
doing the heavy lifting. Part of the joy of working on a home-phone product is that OpenPeak doesn't have to worry about battery constraints, unlike Apple, Sculley said. The demands of creating a powerful multimedia device with a slim body and viable
battery life meant Apple couldn't get the best possible voice quality on their phone, Sculley said. "Eventually something has to give. They didn't have much left in terms of battery and performance capacity to play out the communications
aspect," Sculley said. Gittleman says the OpenFrame is based on an "open" platform, but it's not open by any normal person's interpretation of the word. While the device's custom OS is based on a hacked Linux kernel, all of the
software above the kernel is closed and proprietary. OpenPeak will offer a full API for developing third-party apps, but only to carriers, not to consumers. That's in contrast to a more aggressively open-source alternative, Trolltech's Qtopia
Broadband Suite software platform for broadband IP phones. Trolltech signed an agreement with Broadcom today to offer a chips-and-software solution that IP-phone manufacturers could use to create devices. The Qtopia interface isn't quite as pretty as
OpenPeak's, but it does many of the same things, and it seems to be more extensible, as it uses open-source components. Ideally, users and communities could write applications for this broadband phone platform, said Ram Fish, Trolltech's general
manager of VOIP products. "You might go into Fry's and buy one of those devices that has those capabilities, but it will be an Internet-only device so you connect it using Wi-Fi or just plug it into your router. Put it in the kitchen, and it has
full Skype capabilities, video and voice," he said. But Trolltech's vision and OpenPeak's have more in common than they have differences, both Fish and Gittelman said. The two companies are beginning to talk about their commonalities, Gittleman
and Sculley said. "They have terrific software. Potentially, I think, they could be very complementary," Gittleman said. Of course, there have been many attempts to bring some sort of Internet-y touch-screen thingie to the home, such as
3Com's doomed Audrey and, more recently, Nokia's N810 Internet tablet. The OpenFrame's difference is in its distribution, Gittelman said. The OpenFrame will be sold by phone carriers trying to promote their landline Internet services, rather than on
store shelves. It will be heavily subsidized to keep the price down. OpenPeak already designs products for Verizon, so it's not a huge leap to think of the OpenFrame as a future FiOS product – though Gittleman shied away from saying exactly
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