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Skype Phones

I am ready to buy a phone handset to use with my (excellent!) Skype phone service. If you have experience with any of the available Skype handsets, please comment here or email me. My email is listed the About page.

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Koral

I used the VoipVoice.com’s Cyberphone K for a while, but then it stopped working all of a sudden. Even though it is a high-quality feel handset, I can’t recommend it. The customer service is non-responsive too. Looking at the voipvoice forums, they seem to have quite a bit of problems. The drivers are not standard and I always seem to loose the settings. Main sound starts coming out of the USB phone, etc, etc. You have to tweak different parameters here and there. Don’t know how other handsets compare to this one, but I think a cheap-o headset is best way to go.
I have also started using my Dell Axim X51v wireless with the newest version of Pocket
Skype and it seems to work quite well. I need to get more mileage on it to be sure, but so far it is promising. It serves as a cordless Skype phone essentially.