There’s been a spate of VoIP phone/ mouse combos, and it makes me and others [Engadget] wonder what the heck is going on? I’ve reviewed (or read reviews of) at least 5 mouse/ phone combos since July and I’m sick of them. Personally, I think they are a bad functional design, unhygienic, and totally unnecessary.Continue Reading
Rimax have a nice PMP / VoIP phone called the Mystic. It has a 1.5″ OLED screnn and 2GB of internal memory, which isn’t enough room to store a whole collection of video and music. You can also play back a whole range of audio formats including MP1/2/3, WMA, WMV, WAV, ACT, WAV. But it’sContinue Reading
More VoIP IPOs Another VoIP company is going public. This time, instead of hardware, it’s a softswitch maker, Veraz Networks Inc. Veraz will trade on the NASDAQ once their IPO is out. [via New Telephony] Skype Pocket PC 2.1 Jim Courtney gives some details about the new 2.1 version of Skype for Pocket PC andContinue Reading
Samsung, in conjunction with eidicom, have presented the new EW-700 WiFiFone Smart phone that uses their new co-developed Post-PC multimedia processor. It has a fairly impressive list of features with everything from a web browser, MP3 player, IM client, movie player, 2MP camera and integrated Outlook Data Sync. That’s all very well, but it’s theContinue Reading
Here is a very simplistic nutshell guide to setting up your home for wireless VoIP calling without having to rewire your home. This is a very specific example, for Skype. You may need to adjust some steps for other programs. Get cable or other broadband Internet service. You may not have many choices. I liveContinue Reading