A hybrid of a computer and an IP phone. Anatomy of the GM-Box hardware platform. Part 2 - development

I continue to share the history of the development of the GM-Box G1 hardware platform. In the previous article, I talked about the first steps towards creating a product - prototyping to test product hypotheses. This stage made it possible to formulate requirements for a serial product.

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