Ojo Shadow Personal Video Phone - Black (PVP-900)
The OJO PVP900 is a revolutionary new telephone that allows you to talk face-to-face with friends and family. Feel the warmth of a smile. Catch the twinkle of any eye. It's just like being there.
This Worldgate Ojo is similar to the Motorola Ojo wi
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Ojo Shadow Personal Video Phone - Black (PVP-900) Reviews
Worldgate went out of business, so if you buy the phone, you can't use it without the monthly service.
To get fully set up is probably going to cost you the best part of $250 for each phone - but this is a one off cost for the phone. - OJO: Great quality audio and video - even on a modest broadband connections. You call before to see if they are ready. However, my experience with these has been average at best, especially when compared with the OJO:. Apologies to any guys out there if you have had to sacrifice your ESPN subscription on account of this review. You send emails scheduling a time.
It sits there waiting for a call. Unsurprisingly, the tool designed for the job is far better. You can accept the call, and away you go, or you can reject it, and the caller can leave a video answer-phone message. - Webcams: Both parties need a computer with the correct software installed, a webcam, a mike, and a broadband connection. For families that don't have the luxury of living close together, it gives you a wonderful and fun way to stay in touch. - OJO: You need broadband, but the phone does everything else. Before now, I have spent hours on the phone to my mum trying to workout why her audio is not working.
- OJO: easy to set up (practically plug and play), and there are support staff to help if you have any problems. To get going is not cheap, but it is a lot more affordable than it was a couple of years ago. The dull and static marketing rhetoric, and business information that makes up most of the website's content completely misses the opportunity to let enthusiastic users sing its praises on interactive forums, or provide community services such as user directories. - OJO: It works like a phone. In short, it is designed for the job of being a video phone, whereas the standard home computer is not. I think anyone who is about to spend $250 on a phone would probably (as I did) check out the company website first, and this very nearly put me off the purchase.
- Webcams: (My biggest complaint) - both people need to be on the computer at the same time, and ready for a call. After that there is a $10 per month for the subscription fee (for each user). I am glad it didn't. It is far better than anything else I have tried - and I have tried a bunch. I have been using the OJO phone for almost a month now (I live in the USA and have family in the UK), and it is every bit as good as the marketing hype.
The only negative I can think to say about the OJO experience is that their website is a real let-down. I hope someone from OJO reads this, and does something about it. The staff are very friendly and helpful.
The faceless corporate feel of it belies the friendly and personable staff that greet you when you call to sign up or have any support questions. When a call comes in, it rings. - Webcams: can be tricky to set up.
OK - so why spend the money on an OJO when you can use a webcam for free. By the time you get it working (if you do), everyone else has got bored of waiting and has moved on to something else. There are plenty of ways to video message with people out there (Skype and MSN Messenger to name a few).
- Webcams: The quality of the audio and video is usually moderate at best. If it was a toss up between being able to afford this or cable TV, I would go with this every time. So in summary, I love my OJO.
It is a hassle.
Worldgate went out of business, so if you buy the phone, you can't use it without the monthly service.
The ability to leave or receive a video message just like a voice mail is also really neat. Imagine coming home and SEEING your grand kids sing happy birthday to you. It is inconceivable that they could communicate with the grandkids via webcam because they simply cannot use a computer and telephone does not allow me to visually 'check up on them'. It's been sometime since then so I don't know what's on the market now but have no incentive to look around as we are completely satisfied. My parents are both in their 80's and both are victims of strokes. If you have family/friends in far away places, it's really a no brainer.these things are the future. Enter 'The Ojo' as we have come to affectionately call it.
Priceless. I've not heard anything negative from my family either about set-up or service. I think it took about 20 minutes from opening the box to total set up. Also, when I purchased ours, I did search the internet for competitors but found ojo to be the best design and easiest to use. In fact, it's easier to use in my opinion than a standard telephone.even my [.].calls Pappy and Grand-ma on her own. My Mom who has significant diminished mental abilities from her stroke to our surprise learned on her own to call us with their ojo (press two buttons and that's it). Seems like setting it up is the biggest fear (all of my family and even cousins now have ojo's) because it is 'new fangeled' but the customer support that I received is second to none; they really love their product.
Now I can see Daddy several times every day and he is very comfortable with using the Ojo. I live in Maryland and Mom lived in NC with Daddy until she died in August(after 49 years together). So if you are reading this review and trying to decide whether to buy one or not, just buy it. I think that it will be great for my business. I am buying two more, one for home & another for my Eastern Shore office. Worldgate has an incredible staff of helpful people that have spent time to help us get the phones set up. I found out about the Ojo and bought two of them.
It has given me so much peace of mind, that I can't say enough good things about this product. It is almost as though I am in the room with him. I can't imagine anyone not wanting an Ojo, or maybe two or three. I wish I had bought this phone earlier. I have been so excited and amazed by this product that I have spent the last several days dragging friends and neighbors into my office to see this wonderful phone in operation. My Mom would have loved it. Whenever I call I get an answer. You will love it, and your friends and neighbors will ooh and ahh over it, which alone makes the purchase worthwhile.
I didn't realize this product was on the market or I would have bought it years ago. I find it very impressive that if I call for help or with a question, I reach an actual person and I don't have to spend forever on hold. Bernice Latou Now clients coming into either office can actually see me. I do not know how this company sells the Ojo for such a low price, and the service plan costs almost nothing (especially when I compare it to the ridiculous price that I pay for monthly service on my Motorola Q cell phone). I am a lawyer with offices 115 miles apart.
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