VoIP Blogging: November 2006 Archives

VoIP Blogging > November 30, 2006

VoIP Word/Phrase of the Day

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] Quality of Service (QoS) can mean many different things, but when spoken in the context of Voice over IP, it is used to described subscriber satisfaction with of all imperfections affecting the service. Typically network elements (or imperfections) such as availability (uptime), bandwidth (throughput), latency (delay), and error rate are discussed.

911 Enable to Unveil E911 Enterprise Appliance

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] According to 911 Enable, the RedBox combines fast and secure VoIP 911 call delivery to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP) with a hardware interface that automatically manages inter-branch enterprise phone moves. Typically E911 is thought of as the responsibility of the service provider, but with many service providers offering spotty (or no) E911 solution, the RedBox offers enterprises the ability to take control of E911.

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November 30, 2006

VoIP Word/Phrase of the Day

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911 Enable to Unveil E911 Enterprise Appliance

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November 29, 2006

Talkswitch 280VS and 284VS Hybrid IP PBX’s Unvieled

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] Talkswitch, a leading PBX vendor has unveiled two new hybrid IP PBX’s. The Talkswitch 280VS and the Talkswitch 284VS are hybrid IP PBXs that accommodate two incoming telephone lines and provide eight local extensions that the user can configure as IP or analog, and tenremote extensions.

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SunRocket: The Real Internet Phone Revolution

[Daily Find] Free Caller ID, Caller Waiting, Free Voicemail, Keep Your number, Free Gizmo, Free Phone, No Risk, No Cancellation Fee, Call logs, Call Return, Find Me, Click To Call, Contacts, 3-way calling and much more. Get SunRocket Now.

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November 28, 2006

CODE.tv Relaunches as LX.tv

[Computer Shopping] CODE.tv is relaunching as LX.tv in a move to brand itself as a broadband lifestyle network. LX.tv has hired MTV News correspondent SuChin Pak to host”¦...

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Smith On VoIP Basics and Word/Phrase of the Day

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] Most recently (the past three weeks), I have seen an increase in emails asking me to provide more novice or beginner VoIP information. I guess all of the cool products and in-depth commentary/analysis really does not mean much, if you do not understand that basic’s of VoIP.

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November 27, 2006

VoIP Episode 5: VoIP over UMTS mouth-to-ear delay

[Welcome to my Technology blog] For example, we have seen in a previous post that a VoIP packet may have to queue for a HSDPA radio resource, or the packet may have to queue at some of the routers and switches before it reaches its destination. The various routers and switches along the route of the packet can be loaded differently, so some packets may be delayed more than others.

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Brits with Broadband

[Computer Shopping] Brits with Broadband From the National Statistics office (PDF), via Resource Shelf: Three out of four connections to the Internet are now...

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November 26, 2006

SaskTel Finally Gets Into VoIP

[Maple Leaf 2.0 - A Look at Web 2.0 in Canada] Even though VoIP has been all the rage over the past two or three years, several Canadian carriers (SaskTel, Telus, Manitoba Tel) have stayed out of the market due to concerns about the regulatory environment that favoured cable rivals and independents such as Vonage. With the federal government recently giving carriers the freedom to price VoIP service as they wish, SaskTel has finally come out of the gate with a VoIP service called WebCall Basic within its home territory, Saskatchewan.

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Open-Source OS DAP runs Skype

[mobile phone reviews, news, community - SlashPhone.com] Out of the box you get Firefox, Thunderbird and Skype, and there's a whole community out there desperate to educate you as to what other Microsoft alternatives you can download.

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November 25, 2006

Buffalo WSKP-G WiFi Skype Phone

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] The RTX Dualphone 3088 is different from previous models, in that it is as standalone unit so you can send and receive Skype calls without your computer. The RTX Dualphone 3088 also allows you make calls over your existing landline making it an excellent [...]">RTX Dualphone 3088 Cordless Skype Phone

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Skype Hacks: Tips & Tools for Cheap, Fun, Innovati...

[Ebooks selling info and review] Book Description If you've heard about Skype--and who hasn't with all the recent media attention devoted to internet telephone services--chances are you've been mighty tempted to try it out. Skype Hacks tells you what all the Skype hype is about, explains the basics, and shows you more than 100 clever tips and tricks for tweaking and tuning Skype to make it do just what you want and more.

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November 24, 2006

Nokia to shut VoIP and file-sharing

[21talks] Nokia takes on VoIP. The cellphone maker plans a bandwidth shaper tool that lets operators control the use of network resources by bandwidth hungry applications, understand file-sharing and VoIP.

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NTL/Telewest admits limiting unlimited web access

[Computer Shopping] Telewest is introducing network throttling on its "unlimited" Blueyonder broadband product. News groups and chatrooms have had complaints of...

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November 23, 2006

Get Creative With Your Article Writing

[Computer Shopping] The journey is the template upon which a number of successful stories are based upon. A beginning, a middle and an end, all with purpose and...

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HBO considers starting an Internet TV channel

[Computer Shopping] Filed under: HBO, Programming, Cable/Satellite, Web And the convergence of television and the World Wide Web continues. Chris Albrecht, chief”¦ Bread...

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November 22, 2006

VoIP Does Not Kill Implementations, People Do

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] Interestingly, a fair portion of companies I deal with are already past their first VoIP implementation, and are basically cleaning up the mess from their first go round. There are a lot of inept VARs out there who jump in with an ill conceived VoIP “solution”, and leave the customer holding the bag once they get paid.

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Verizon expands 3G services with BroadbandAccess

[VoIP Service Blog | VoIP Provider Reviews & IP Telephony News] Verizon's press release department must have been working overtime this past weekend in order to pump out all this news: Tyler, Texas: Tyler Residents Can Now Enjoy High-Speed Wireless Internet, E-mail, Mobile Music and Gaming Longview, Texas: Customers Can Now Get High-Speed Wireless Internet and E-mail Services, Download Video Clips and Songs to Handsets Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Surrounding Area: Customers Can Now Get High-Speed Wireless Internet and E-mail Services, and Download Video Clips and Songs to Handsets Iraq: Verizon Business to Offer Free Calling During Holiday Season to U.S. Troops in Iraq The first three articles all refer to Verizon's expansion of its EV-DO network to new markets, all seemingly launched on the same day. BroadbandAccess is the name of their high-speed wireless network, which boasts speeds of 400-700 kbps.

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November 21, 2006

Softphones on Memory Sticks Are Now The Rage

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] The new CY4638 VoIP Demonstration Kit combines Cypress’s low-power WirelessUSBâ™ LP (CYRF6936) 2.4-GHz radio system-on-chip and Winbond Electronics Corporation’s W681360 CODEC. This allows manufacturers an easily replicated, fast time-to-market design.

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Skype Business Extras. Extra Skype ! Extra Skype ! Extra Skype ! It is starting to sound like a supermarket...

[Watching, Testing, Digesting: Skype Software & Hardware Gadgets.] Maybe it all the voip/skype hype has become a supermarket for anybody that has a plugin to market”¦. And soon we might be checking out from the Ebay-Skype-software-auction at the Paypal cashier.

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November 20, 2006

Meg Whitman spoke with Chronicle reporters and editors about eBay's recent turbulence, the hot-button issue of online fraud and

[Watching, Testing, Digesting: Skype Software & Hardware Gadgets.] Q: The obvious synergy is that if you want to buy something on eBay, you click on the Skype button and you get the seller on the line. But at that point, can't the buyer and seller cut their own deal, leaving eBay out of the transaction?

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Multiple login issue with notification and something on the login security with Skype reduced to triple login... Arff..

[Watching, Testing, Digesting: Skype Software & Hardware Gadgets.] I thought I noticed something different with the number of times you can login to the same Skype account”¦ I did not really look into it anymore the past 3 months, because it seemed to me that Skype itself just does not care about this topic anyways (dual,triple, login without notification and sending of clear text password over pop/smtp email). After a while on repeating the same and same thing, you get kind of bored and tired of it.

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November 19, 2006

British Porn Videos

[Computer Shopping] British Porn Videos Posted 11/12/06 in British Porn Sites, Strictly Broadband, Abi Titmuss, Katie”¦ Broadband Internet Wireless VoIP Mobile Telecom...

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Reporters Roundtable Podcast: A battle plan for Black Friday and beyond

[Computer Shopping] Reporters Roundtable Podcast: A battle plan for Black Friday and beyond 17Nov06 With all those tech toys soon to go on sale, what should you do?”¦...

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November 18, 2006

Skype over EVDO? Not really

[Realtime Community | Unified Communications] it wouldn't surprise me if they've got a mechanism in place to detect Skype traffic and throttle session throughput when they find it running, although I have had some Skype calls that were quite good on my Treo. But when I've had good calls, my network performance was significantly better than Dameon's was today for both upstream and downstream traffic.

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Skype’s readiness for corporate usage...

[Watching, Testing, Digesting: Skype Software & Hardware Gadgets.] With millions of users worldwide, Skype is arguably the most popular consumer-level voice over IP (VoIP) implementation on the planet. As of the end of last year, Skype, now owned by eBay, had more than 50 million users according to many reports—and more than 200 million downloads.

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November 17, 2006

Blue Box #45: VoIP in SANS Top 20, launch of VOIPSA Best Practices project, VoIP security news, Skype security, IETF, security

[Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast] This is a personal project and neither Mitel, Pingalo or VOIPSA have any formal connection to this podcast. In the interest of transparency we just thought you should know our employers.

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SMB plus VOIP is SIPxNANO from Pingtel

[VOIP IP Telephony] Pingtel has teamed up with Patton Electronics to create SIPxNANO, a small, mac mini style, IPPBX designed for small businesses with no more than 30 extension needs. Although it is small in size, it is designed to deliver enterprise class, SIP based VOIP IP Telephony to SMBs.

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November 16, 2006

VoIP SC (Session Controller) SBC (Session Border Controller)

[IT Professionals] Various types of stateful (interconnect different networks such as H.323, MGCP [Media Gateway Control Protocol], and SIP [Session Initiation Protocol]) and stateless (same networks) session controllers exist depending on the VoIP network features required.

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Discount on Internet Telephony Conference & Expo

[ Plasma Trend Diary - An aggregation of latest updates in Gizmo World!] As a reward to my loyal blog readers, I was able to request and get a 20% discount on any Internet Telephony Conference & Expo registration plan for readers on my blog.

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November 15, 2006

Has the VoIP Service Provider Bubble Burst?

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] Earlier this year, I had an interesting conversation with a Vonage Executive who told me that when Vonage was offering their wholesale service option, he would take 10% of the customer’s first year subscription projections were and that is what they would hit (if they were lucky) over their first two years. He stated that this was true even for those with modest projections.

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Call Skype with your Nokia E61 and even more at Nokia E61 Blog (Business Security Signal VoIP Wireless)

[Wireless Security] Call Skype with your Nokia E61 and even more at Nokia E61 Blog Source: www.nokme.com FCC Introduces Advanced Wireless Service in the 1710-1755 MHz...

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November 14, 2006

Yahoo and Linksys to Offer VOIP Cordless Phone

[Voip] Home-office and small-business users get an Internet-calling boost as Yahoo and Linksys team on a dual-mode cordless phone that can be used to make and receive both Internet-based and traditional calls.

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TalkPlus lets you call Skype users from mobile phones

[VoIP Service Blog | VoIP Provider Reviews & IP Telephony News] TalkPlus isn't a VoIP service per say, but it does let you do some pretty cool things. Phil Wolff and Jeff Black show how in mere seconds, you can assign a virtual phone number to one of your Skype contacts and call them from your mobile phone. Yeah, it's not the most practical thing VoIP lets you do right now, but it's a neat party trick... well, at a LAN party anyway. Categories: TalkPlus, Skype, VoIP Service, Phil Wolff, Jeff Black, VoIP, LAN Party...

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November 13, 2006

Net2Phone - Consumer Services - CommCenter

[Net2phone.com] Net2Phone CommCenter works with most PCs using Windows 95 or newer with a sound card, speakers, and a PC microphone.

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Net2Phone - Home Page

[Net2phone.com] Northland Cable Television Launches Digital Phone Service with Net2Phone .related logos and marks are registered trademarks of Net2Phone, Inc.

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November 12, 2006

VoIP is a series of tubes...

[antecipate] Unless I am mistaking, we are getting yet another replay of the "my little walled garden" show, this time with point to point voice communication as the guest star. Just take the same incumbents as in the case of consumer instant messaging services, add eBay with Skype, and Google with GTalk and you have the new landscape.

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Permanent Link to Linksys CIT310

[Gadget Venue dot com] The Linksys is different as it works with Yahoo’s messenger VoIP service. The built in software runs Microsoft Messenger and you can select a contact from on the phone which works over wi-fi.

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November 11, 2006

VON Europe 2006: "FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN, THEN WE TAKE BERLIN"

[Telecom's Tsunami] Now, there is nothing wrong with having a conference that caters to this audience, it serves a need and I am very happy the VON organization is providing such an excellent service. It's great that VON has transformed into this new more mature VON.

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Revolutionizing the Office

[Voip] snom technology, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones, has announced that during the VON Europe show in Berlin, Germany and SIMO in Madrid, Spain, snom technology will be demonstrating the compatibility of its SIP based VoIP phones with the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Source: www.crm2day.com CallSmart Extends Relationship with LogiSense Corporation to Continue Delivery of Nation Wide Voice over IP Services LogiSense Corporation, the leading provider of converged IP Billing/OSS solutions, announced today that CallSmart, a North Dakota company providing long distance service to the Bismarck, Dickinson and surrounding area, has extended its relationship with LogiSense by implementing their EngageIP Telecom Rating and service management solution.

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November 10, 2006

Going out on a limb - ways to reach me.

[BP's Weblog] Well, since I constantly play with new VoIP and other services, people often complain that it's hard to reach me. To further complicate this, I'm going to publicly post a new set of contact info.

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Linksys introduces CIT310 DECT phone with Yahoo! inside

[Engadget] Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Nothing gets our heart pumping quite like a new VOIP handset, and when it's a dual-function model that can connect to a...

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November 09, 2006

Robust Growth in End-User Segments Drives VoIP Semiconductor Market

[VoIP News Net - VoIP Service Provider Info | Internet Phone News] The voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) semiconductor market is witnessing very high growth in all the end-user segments such as carrier infrastructure, enterprise, and consumer or residential markets. There is also a trend toward integration and this results in the need for a high-performance, low-power and cost-effective solution.

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Skype 3.0 - A New Revenue Strategy Revealed?

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] While the automation of one-click dialing of phone numbers on websites when a user is logged on to Skype is a nice feature to have, I am more interested in where Skype is going with the other e-commerce services that Zennstrom, “cannot talk about”¦that are being worked on today.” For a long time eBay has been criticized for the hefty price tag it paid for Skype and while Skype has quietly tripled it revenues this past year, it still has not quieted their skeptics. And I am sure Skype 3.0 will do little to silence them, but if you can read between the lines, you will see that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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November 08, 2006

Verizon Intensifies European VoIP Push

[Voip] Telecomweb - Nov 6, 2006Verizon Business, in a major expansion of its VoIP offerings overseas, has released its entire VoIP portfolio to the international market. …

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Thank you PR WEB.

[Voip] “We are going to enter the voice over IP market Source: www.techweb.com Ditech Networks Supports Expanded Range of VoIP Services with Addition TMCnet - in voice quality solutions for mobile and VoIP networks, announced today that its Packet Voice Processor(TM), an advanced border media processing platform designed to enable carriers to deploy universal transcoding and toll-quality voice over IP Source: news.tmcnet.com...

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November 07, 2006

Net2Phone -- Communication without borders

[Net2phone.com] Voice calls from your PC to any phone.

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Dialpad Communications - the Internet's best phone call

[Dialpad.com] You can use your PC to talk longer (and save more) while making and receiving calls from regular phones. Plus enjoy free PC-to-PC calling and share instant messages, photos, music, and more.

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November 06, 2006

IPO Ahead for Mitel?

[Realtime Community | Unified Communications] Mitel's a mighty little company. They may not have the name recognition of some of the bigger players in telecom on the outside, but on the inside world of voice and data networks, they been at the core of some pretty important pieces.

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Mobile Video: not a Big Thing yet

[VoIP Service Blog | VoIP Provider Reviews & IP Telephony News] I began that article with a bit of a disclaimer: Opinions differ on the usefulness of having the ability to see a high-quality live video of the person you're talking to on your mobile phone. While I doubt that everyone in the future will always opt to make video calls, I am convinced that it will be used in certain situations, and that it will be a Big Thing.

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November 05, 2006

Dog of a VOIP, Dingo becomes a VOIP IP Telephony service.

[VOIP IP Telephony] It is commonly described as an Australian wild dog, but is not restricted to Australia, nor did it originate there. Modern dingos are found throughout Southeast Asia, mostly in small pockets of remaining natural forest, and in mainland Australia, particularly in the north.

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BSNL s caution to customers

[Computer Shopping] Chennai Telephones has suggested that customers verify the bona fides of franchisee salesman before booking BSNL broadband connections as franchisees”¦...

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November 04, 2006

NT to provide high speed data services over fibre-optic network

[Computer Shopping] According to local press reports, Nepal s national PTO Nepal Telecom (NT) is preparing to launch high speed data services using the fibre-optic”¦...

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Product Review Actiontec's VoSKY Chatterbox Speakerphone

[Realtime Community | Unified Communications] Toss complimentary ones in with VoSKY Exchange and Call Center packages. It could be a handy little attention getter, but for all outside the most casual speakerphone users or Skype users, the audio quality, in both directions, will quickly unimpress.

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November 03, 2006

How can Skype detect my physical IP if....

[Voxilla Forum] The issue with Skype is that the protocol is proprietary so even if you try to sniff the many connections their application is making between your computer and the rest-of-the-world you can't really determine what information is being exchanged.

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More About VOIP

[Work at Home in Progress] As I noted yesterday, some people claim to occasionally have trouble with their ISP about using VOIP. It uses quite a bit of bandwidth, and so it is a little hard on the ISPs.

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November 02, 2006

Hitachi Cable Wireless IP5000 - Wi-Fi IP Phone

[Voxilla Forum] I have it working with an allwors 6x IPPBX but I thought I would be able to also use it as a WIFI phone with my ITSP. Can this phone be configured for multiable profiles so one could just switch from office to ITSP from a public or private access point?

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Philips VoIP 321 Dual Mode Cordless Skype Phone

[Smith On VoIP - Insights on VoIP Products and Services] The VoIP 321 features a speakerphone and a wide variety of call features such as, Caller ID, Call Waiting, Call on Hold, Message Waiting, and Call Transfer. With ten hours of talk time and almost 100 hours of stand-by time, the only thing the Philips VoIP 321 is missing is a color LCD screen.

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