What’s this? Hot on the heels of recent announcements from Netgear and Philips, Linksys are working on their very own PC-independent Skype phone called the WIP320 based around a Broadom BCM4318 single-chip 802.11 b/g WiFi chip and a BCM1161 Mobile VoIP processor. As you can see from the photo it looks very much like aContinue Reading
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 it suitableContinue Reading
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 SkypeContinue Reading
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 SIP-compliant VoIP provider. CheckContinue Reading
Wow, is that a mouthful. Not just Skype/ VoIP phones, but cordless and computer-less as well. Netgear and loads of other networking hardware manufacturers have been revelling in the VoIP aftermarket with all the handsets they’ve been releasing. But this is the first one that is cordless, and it doesn’t need a computer – justContinue Reading