Good review of the Obi with the new Google Voice firmware

[QBZappy]

Have a look here. This review & how-to will help avoid many unnecessary support calls.

http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-1-use-your-phone-with-google-voice-for-free-incoming-and-outgoing-calls/

[MichiganTelephone]

Thanks for the link.  There's also a part 2 now:

http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-2-the-obitalk-portal-documentation-and-using-the-device-as-an-fxo-port-with-asterisk/

[jblah]

thanks for the links. this is specifically why i bought the obi..i'll have to give it a try once my obi gets here on the 1st! no more phone bills!

[MichiganTelephone]

Here's links to my entire series thus far:

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 1: Use your phone with Google Voice for free incoming and outgoing calls

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 2: The OBiTALK portal, documentation, and using the device as an FXO port with Asterisk

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 3: 911 on the cheap?

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 4: How to use the OBi110 as an FXO port with Asterisk and FreePBX

First look at the Obihai OBi100 VoIP device: Like the OBi110, but smaller and less expensive, and without the Line port

How to use the Obihai OBi100 or OBi110 VoIP device as a gateway between Asterisk/FreePBX and Google Voice and/or the OBiTALK network

How to use the Obihai OBi100 or OBi110 VoIP device as a gateway between Asterisk/FreePBX and Google Voice and/or the OBiTALK network — Part 2: Using the Phone port as an Asterisk extension

I still feel like I've only scratched the surface here - I think that with a little thought and effort you could do a lot of creative things with these units, given that you can route calls from one service to any other service (or even do "hairpin turns" on the same service - see the comments section under Part 4).  The more people that get their hands on these units, the more I think we will see them put to clever and creative uses.

[Syam]

Just checking to see if anybody tried OBI110 with Vonage using its call transfer feature to make parallel calls without holding the Vonage line.