The USRobotics USR9630 is capable of being used as a standard PSTN phone or as a VoIP phone to make calls via Skype. The base station plugs into a phone socket and also into a PC running Skype. You can connect up to 4 handsets to the base station at any time, making [...]

Got some spare electronics parts and a handset? Got a bit of electronics savvy and are comfortable around a hot soldering iron? Feeling envy for cool old-school Skype phones? Then make your own USB VoIP phone! The instructions at Instructables say that you can test it out with any software. I assume that means Skype [...]

A casual browse through various VoIP websites will show you every type of VoIP client, service, and phone. But this one’s a first: a so called mobile VoIP phone called Busta that basically runs from a web browser. So it’s not really a phone per se, more like a virtual phone. It’s used by adding [...]

As if free calling isn’t enough for you, Skype is doing a back-to-school promo and giving away loads of gadgets away in September. Five prizes a day for the entire month (though the email didn’t arrive until Sep 5!). Gadgets include laptops, computers, USB drives with Skype loaded, webcams, headphones, bluetooth headsets and more. If [...]

The UTStarcom F3000 might not work with Skype (thanks to their closed source VoIP codec) but it does use SIP. And what does that mean? Well you aren’t limited to using just Skype. As SIP is an open source standard for IP Telephony you can use the UTStarcom F3000 with any [...]