Edge-Core WM4201 WiFi Skype Phone

Following hot on the heels of Netgear’s SPH101 WiFi Skype phone shipping announcement yesterday, Edge-Core have made their own WiFi Skype phone available priced at $199. The Edge-Core WM4201 uses 802.11 b/g, which means that it can make SkypeOut calls and receive SkypeIn calls even when you are away from your computer. Same functionality as the Netgear SPH101, but at $199 you’ll save a few bucks.

Asides the usual call functionality, the WM4201 features secure WPA/WPA2-PSK wireless connectivity and Wireless Multi-Media (WMM), a technology that works to improve the call quality. Edge-Core also have a Wireless Cradle Access Point for the WM4201, pictured below. Looks pretty slick, it certainly wouldn’t look out of place in an office or home office. As well as being a cradle, it can double up as a wireless access point. Just plug in it into your router via Ethernet and share your broadband connection with other computers.

The Skype accessory market has really been hotting up recently with Belkin shipping their WiFi Skype phone in October, Linksys developing their own WiFi phone Netgear shipping their SPH101 WiFi Skype phone in bulk to customers in Norther America. Clearly there is a strong and rising demand for WiFi Skype phones, personally I just don’t think that a cordless DECT phone just doesn’t cut it now. Sorry Philips.