Quote from: drgeoff on March 21, 2022, 03:23:43 PM
There has been no announcement which answers that question.
My prediction (in reality a guess as I have no inside information) is that there will be no replacements. There was no technical reason to EOL those ATAs.
I think there is some subtlety here. The "value add"/"killer" feature for some of the OBi2xx devices is/was Google Voice support vs the OBi3xx devices which did not support GV. The OBi3xx (which has not been EoL'ed) is a pure ATA (typically sold via integraters/VARs, sometimes locked to the provider) and is still available for use with other SIP providers (just not GV).
But I do agree that the consumer market for ATAs is nearing zero (as opposed to business's migration to VoIP which is still a thing in some places (although, it, too, is shrinking)), so if Poly (OBi) offers a new device it will likely only be because the SoC's in the devices are, themselves, EOL, and a new rev would be needed (I suspect Marvell has new variants of the SoC at this point).
OBi was partially a victim of their own success and business plan, in that while GV support achieved consumer sales for the OBi devices (who did not want "free"?), there was no recurring revenue after the initial sale of the device, which almost certainly resulted in a pure expense when they had to revise the firmware for the GV changes a few years ago.
And, of course, it should be noted that Poly's ATAs (the OBi3xx) do integrate with Google Workspace (business) VoIP, so another option is to move to a Google Workspace account.