GatesMcBalmer

So ideally a handset device capable of recieving and making calls to a limited number of devices.

When you say a "limited number of devices" do you mean a closed system when you have provisioned all the devices or do you mean you also need to be able to receive calls from standard phones?

To replace a landline you can just use a service like Vonage Home for about $10/month. If you want to setup your own PBX (phone system) for calling your own managed set of devices, then you need more. In any case, you always need a SIP service if you want to make and receive calls with regular phone numbers.

What are your goals here? What are you trying to accomplish?

I have six and I'm not taking any more, sorry pal!

Are you asking why breaking the rules on a site gets you banned?

As this question appears to be based on The Big Lebowski (great movie!) you'll have to ask the writers if you want to know.

Identify a skill that is in demand and find a way to learn it. That's the only secret to having an income.

How am I not following my own advice?

How about you do you and I do me?

Well I don't know what to tell you friend. I'm as bathed in the blood as they come and this has not been my experience. Consider Proverbs 11:27

"Whoever seeks good finds favor, but evil comes to one who searches for it."

The Bible doesn't say and there is no consensus among Biblical scholars about what the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were. Some believe it was simply arrogance and inhospitality.

I get into these comment chains from time to time where really no matter what I post whoever I’m talking to downvotes...

I suggest avoiding such comment chains. If the person you are talking to is downvoting everything you write then you can be certain you are wasting your time.