Auvi PHIP64 Dual-mode DECT Skype Phone

Auvi have announced the release of their PHIP64 DECT Skype phone, priced at $129 and due to hit the shelves in November.  But what does it offer?
Well to be blunt, the PHIP64 offers what you would expect.  Like other DECT Skype phones, the PHIP64 allows you to make calls via Skype and your landline.  It [...]


How Carriers Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love VoIP

Phone Boy writes Why we care about UMA. UMA, or Unlicensed Mobile Access, has the feature that, with a dual-mode Wi-Fi/ cellular phone, conversations can be passed seamlessly from one network to the other. If a UMA mobile phone is designed properly, it always seeks for a Wi-Fi connection with higher priority. True UMA dual-mode [...]

VoIP For The Global Traveller

Are you one of those people that’s on the go a great deal? Maybe you do a lot of international travelling. Either way, if you are nomadically-inclined, you probably know that if you want your friends, family, clients or business contacts to be able to reach you easily, most solutions end up being relatively expensive [...]

Quickertek Connect: Boosting WiFi Speeds & Range For Macs

If you’re like me, you might not be entirely pleased with the strength of your WiFi reception on a PowerBook G4. I seem to get a pretty bad deal, especially behind doors for some reason. I thought WiFi was able to get through wood!
Anyway, check out the Quickertek Connect, a 2dBi wireless antenna [...]

T-Mobile Hearts VoWiFi

After backtracking on their former feelings about VoIP (banned its use over their data network), they’re now apparently big on offering VoWiFi (VoIP over Wi-Fi) over the new AWS spectrum they acquired in a recent US FCC auction. They’ve already upgraded their equipment and network in New York City. Given they spent US$4+B and plan [...]