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The Gadget: T-Mobile @Home, a phone service for T-Mobile customers hooks your standard home telephone over the internet to make unlimited nationwide calls for just $10 a month on top of your current wireless bill. It's similar to the Hotspot@Home service which uses a cellphone for home calls, but only for home phones.
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This cute 800 DPI optical mouse with a built-in speaker slides out like a cellphone to reveal a keypad for VoIP calls. It has an LCD display for Caller ID and switches between mouse and phone functions automatically. It also looks much cooler than other combos we've seen. No word on price or availability. [Product page via Red Ferret]
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2:30 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Jason Chen
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Latest by viditbhargava: why do you need skype to burn your minutes...use fring which works on the data network or wifi and does not burn any minutes...it makes skypeout calls too...and is a full feature im client with connections to gtalk,skype,yahoo,msn,aol and others more »
Skype's latest $9.95 international subscription plan seems fantastic if you're calling relatives or friends in other countries really often. Just pay $9.95 a month and you'll be able to ring up landlines in one of 34 countries (cellphones are only supported in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and Canada), and if you buy three months' worth of credit before June 1, you'll get one month for free. Super useful for when you've got older folks in other countries who don't really know how to use a computer to Skype with. Or if you don't want them to see over video chat that you've gained some weight. [Skype]
Ignoring previous "iPhone VoIP" apps like Jah Jah, which are only VoIP after you connect to their analog to VoIP bridge, this Fring app seems to be the first real VoIP solution for the iPhone/iPod Touch. To get in on this action you need a jailbroken iPhone, Wi-FI access, and you'll be able to call regular phones using either SkypeOut or SIP (your prices will be determined on which SIP provider you use and how much SkypeOut charges for your particular call). Best of all Fring has built-in IM capabilities for Skype, Google, ICQ, MSN, Twitter, AIM, and Yahoo contacts. The download and install are free. [Fring Install Instructions]
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When does a cordless phone not look like a cordless phone? When it looks like this Thomson Symbio DECT VoIP phone, which allows you to hang up the receiver like a "old time phone," but picks up and works like a cordless one. There's a small LCD screen in the body in order to view contacts and other VoIP network info, and the phone even has internet radio and RSS capabilities—as if you'd want to do either on a phone for an extended amount of time (maybe on the toilet). It's unclear whether this works with Skype, or how it's VoIP, but it sure does look nice. [Thomson via Nexux404]
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2:20 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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Latest by Maciek: zan, hartburnkid, dfwguy....Big thumbs up. Brentis, what do you suggest we (gay...or straight) use to describe our "significant others"??? my homey, my bro, my peep??? If you were my "whatever" and have this attitude i believe i'd reffer to you as more »
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2:29 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Adam Frucci
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Latest by n/a: Why is it that when Apple does something that has already been out for ages, it is suddently NEWS? As people have already stated, VoIP already exists on every other smartphone out there. PSP added Skype months ago, it has had a more »
Logitech's ClearChat Wireless PC headset might seem unremarkable, but a quick scan of Amazon shows there aren't really any non-bluetooth wireless stereo headsets on the market. There are plenty of wireless headphones without mics, one speaker 2.4 GHz wireless headsets and corded stereo headsets. But no product has combined the three ideas like the ClearChat new product. and Logitech claims the 2.4 GHz Wireless device is designed with VoIP users in mind, but we all really know why this is great: MMO fanboys can now head to the bathroom and drain a shotgunned gallon of Mountain Dew without abandoning their clan of orcs, elves and mages. The ClearChat PC Wireless Headset will go on sale in May for $100.
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12:20 PM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Brendan I. Koerner
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Latest by youngjjohnson: @poppy: well since you need a internet connection to use vonage...how do you do that without a computer. How many people pay for a internet connection with out a computer more »
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Spykee, the built-it-yourself Skype robot, just got three different models that you can build him into—one of which is a her. We've got the first images of the Spykee Cell, Spykee Vox and Spykee Miss, all of which have a video camera, MP3 player, VoIP phone, microphone, loudspeaker, motors, and the ability to shove an iPod into its crotch. The best thing about this guy is that you can control him from anywhere in the internet. Well, maybe that'd be the second best thing—the first best is still the fact that he has an iPod where his junk should be. Get yours from Erector. [Erector]
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