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Philips VOIP1511B/37 Skype Travel Phone |
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Our Price - $25.99
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Philips VOIP1511B/37 Skype Travel Phone
Philips VOIP1511B Skype travel phone makes it easy to make VOIP calls away from home. Use this phone wherever you are to call any other Skype users for free. The phone is compatible with PCs. It features sound clarity providing face-to-face conversation quality with the convenience of a classic phone. Using the phone is easy by simply plugging the phone into a USB port on a PC. The phone comes with a full key pad allowing you to dial calls from phone. Also featured, a LCD screen for viewing contacts, call status and Skype voicemail alert. You can use the phone hands free via PC speakers.
Philips VOIP1511B/37 Skype Travel Phone Accessories
Philips VOIP1511B/37 Skype Travel Phone Reviews
This Skype phone looks great but that's where it ends. First, it does NOT have a Mac app yet. Even our IT guy had problems getting it installed on the PC side of my MacBook.
Product is for an outdated Skype program (3.5) which I found out when I called Phillips because the phone was not working properly. I was then informed by the "helpful" agent that most of their customers call first before ordering the phone. Gee. Helpful. NOT! Look, I was calling from Istanbul, Turkey and it is difficult to contact folks during the USA working hours unless it is the wee hours of the am in Turkey. Trust me this snide comment did not improve my mood. The phone does not work properly on my laptop. I tried it at work and it seemed fine but who can I call...it is 1am to 2am in the states!
I feel robbed, to say the least. Why am I so angry? Well I was told to remove the updated version of Skype and download the 3.5. I was told I would not lose my history. Guess what? I can't find it and if it is on my laptop, where is it. Right now it is gone and I had voice mails saved from my sister who died in Oct 2009. Unless someone can help me find my history that I did not delete and click yes save it...my treasured history is gone and SKYPE AND PHILLIPS....I am royally pissed.
Was this helpful? Gee. What do you think?
This skype phone has been a pain from day one to keep working. The driver crashes frequintly on both of my laptops. One laptop has XP Home and the other is running Vista Basic. The problems I've had with it are different from the XP Home computer and the Vista one. This phone does not work with the most recent versions of Skype. I had to un-install Skype 4.1 and go back to version 3.8, which Phillips provide on the disk. Even though I downloaded a 175 mb update and rolled my Skype back, it is just as bad. On my Vista computer, the driver crashes when you try to use the buttons on the phone. On my XP computer, the driver will not start with windows, when I manually start the driver, it works fine for hours, but at some point I will realize that it is not running. The sound quality is really good on the XP laptop, not so much on the Vista machine. My laptop with Vista is brand new, this phone was one of the first things I set up, so the machine is not all messed up and my other XP machine has been used alot, software installed and un-installed ect.
I've been using this phone for a while and bought several of them. The sound quality has been always very good and I haven't had any problems with any of them. If you need a wired usb skype phone this is a very good option and the price is also very reasonable.
The phone is great.very portable. The one concern I have is how long the cable will last as you need to rap it around the phone very tightly for storage. Surely the manufacturer could figure out a better way to store teh cord.
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