More and more companies are getting into Skype phones, it feels like there’s a new one nearly every week. The latest is the Shiro SK9151 Skype DECT Phone, which uses DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless technology) instead of WiFi. However, because it does run on DECT you’ll not experience interference on your Bluetooth or [...]
Another company is getting in on the Skype phone craze, this time it’s Thompson who are releasing their own cordless Skype phone. Unlike other popular Skype phones, the GE 28300EE2 (long product code) is not a WiFI phone and instead uses DECT. I suppose this does mean that it won’t interfere with any [...]
Gizmodo has some pics of a couple of special edition VoIP phones designed by Hulger and Bill Amberg. Given the wide array of VoIP phones that have been released this year, and since VoIP phones can be made in miniature, it’s probably not going to be very long before we start to see VoIP capability [...]
According to Garrett Smith, (who picked it up from a forum), UTStarcom will be releasing the UTStarcom GF-200
as the UTStarcom GF-210 in the USA. The GF-210 operates in dual mode, able to hop onto a WiFi network if a cell network is not available. It features:
1.8″ 65k color display
SIP VoIP capability
WPA / WEP [...]
If you haven’t already noticed, several VoWiFi (VoIP over Wi-Fi) phones have already been released this year and companies expect more growth. CSR plc, a Bluetooth pioneer, has started volume production [Comms Design] of its single-chip Wi-Fi device. There might be a burst of Wi-Fi phones, especially for Skype, although I’m thinking dual-mode Wi-Fi/ cellular [...]