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Skype Announces Cordless Phones
Techtree News Staff, Sep 04, 2006 1557 hrs ISTSkype has announced a range of cordless phones enabling Skype users to make and receive Skype calls over the Internet and traditional landline calls sans computer.
Skype has announced a range of cordless phones that enable Skype users to make and receive both Skype calls over the Internet and traditional landline calls, without a computer.
The company has partnered with Philips and NetGear to introduce the first two cordless phones with this ability. The cordless phones are the Philips VOIP841 and another from NetGear. Both connect directly to users' broadband connections to enable web-connectivity.
Since both the Philips VOIP841 and the NetGear cordless phones can make and receive traditional telephone calls through a landline, Skype is promoting them as replacements for ordinary cordless phones. However, the company made it clear that the phones do not replace landlines and cannot be used for emergency calling.
On this occasion, Stefan Oberg, general manager - Desktop and Hardware, Skype, said that they are broadening their reach to mass consumers by offering them the opportunity to communicate via Skype without having to be tied to the computer.
Oberg further explained that the cordless phones give Skype users the flexibility to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and inexpensive calls to ordinary and mobile phones anywhere in the house, at any time without a running computer.
The company also said that the cordless phones offer increased mobility throughout the home or office, giving consumers the freedom and flexibility of not being tethered to their computer. Consumers with multiple cordless phone handsets in their home will have the ability to hold separate conversations simultaneously, one on Skype, the second on the traditional line, each from a different handset.
In a statement, Lucas Covers, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Philips Consumer Electronics, explained that the VOIP841 is the perfect phone that offers consumers features that will personalize their Internet communications without compromising the best-in-class innovative technologies from Philips and Skype.
The company has partnered with Philips and NetGear to introduce the first two cordless phones with this ability. The cordless phones are the Philips VOIP841 and another from NetGear. Both connect directly to users' broadband connections to enable web-connectivity.
Since both the Philips VOIP841 and the NetGear cordless phones can make and receive traditional telephone calls through a landline, Skype is promoting them as replacements for ordinary cordless phones. However, the company made it clear that the phones do not replace landlines and cannot be used for emergency calling.
On this occasion, Stefan Oberg, general manager - Desktop and Hardware, Skype, said that they are broadening their reach to mass consumers by offering them the opportunity to communicate via Skype without having to be tied to the computer.
Oberg further explained that the cordless phones give Skype users the flexibility to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and inexpensive calls to ordinary and mobile phones anywhere in the house, at any time without a running computer.
The company also said that the cordless phones offer increased mobility throughout the home or office, giving consumers the freedom and flexibility of not being tethered to their computer. Consumers with multiple cordless phone handsets in their home will have the ability to hold separate conversations simultaneously, one on Skype, the second on the traditional line, each from a different handset.
In a statement, Lucas Covers, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Philips Consumer Electronics, explained that the VOIP841 is the perfect phone that offers consumers features that will personalize their Internet communications without compromising the best-in-class innovative technologies from Philips and Skype.
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