Slashdot has a current discussion about which domestic router is best for Quality of Service (QOS) provision for Voice over IP.

The original question posed is by someone using a Linksys WRT54G wireless broadband router with Bittorrent and other high-bandwidth applications to consider. Unfortunately, the WRT54G isn’t quite cutting it when used alongside Vonage.

Inevitably for Slashdot, there is some gravitation toward open-source products. Open firmware for the WRT54G is suggested by some while another comment mentions that m0n0wall, an open-source firewall VPN distribution, can be deployed on relatively low-end commodity hardware and provides the type of QoS required.

Snom is to release it’s M3 DECT / SIP handset system for the North American market and TMCNet has full details and review.

The Snom M3 allows for multiple DECT wireless handsets with full-color graphical displays to make and receive SIP calls over any compliant network.

The Snom M3 system involves a base-station which provides network and control facilities including a web confiiguration interface. Up to 8 individual wireless DECT handsets can be connected to each base-station. The base-station can handle up to three simultaneous calls.

Product video:

The Snom M3 is to be available in the USA as of June 2008.

According to VoIP News, Snom has introduced a new handset dubbed ‘klarVOICE‘ which can be adapted to work with any of their VoIP telephones.

Compared with standard phones, the handset allows the capture of more than twice the spectrum of voice frequencies, providing enhanced voice quality.

The handset is said to offer quality akin to ‘speaking to somebody in the same room’

S60tips.com has an updated article listing VoIP applications suitable for use with the S60 smartphone platform.

Listed and reviewed in the article are Nokia’s own Gizmo, Truphone, EQO, Skype, fring and Yeigo
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The article updates an earlier review of S60 Voice over IP applications.

Silicon Alley Insider is speculating that a comment by Gary Krakow of TheStreet may indicate that Google are looking to produce their own ‘Gphone’.

Google have previously stated that they do not intent to produce their own hardware, rather they intend to develop the Linux based ANDROID mobile phone software platform for deployment on partner’s devices.

There is further speculation about whether some devices might be available around Christmas time.