Tuesday, December 13, 2005

New WiFi VoIP phone through Vonage

Today Vonage has made available to its subscribers a new WiFi portable phone called UTStarcom F1000.

What is it exactly? You know how you can say drive your car to a parking lot where there is a public access wireless internet beaming from some nearby building. You then just open your laptop computer and you are on the net. Well you can do sort of the same thing with that phone now, just instead of having a fully featured web browsing experience you will be able to use that internet access to make phone calls using your VoIP provider - in this case company called Vonage.

This phone has standard VoIP calling features including three-way calling, voicemail and caller ID. The talktime on one charge of its batteries is about 5 hours, standby time 2 to 4 days and the recharge time approximately 3 hours. Vonage sells that phone from its website for US $79.95 (price after a $50 instant rebate).

And in the words of Bill Huang, chief technology officer and senior vice president of engineering at UTStarcom. "We believe the affordable price point and extensive features of the UTStarcom F1000 offered through Vonage will be a disruptive force in the telecommunications service marketplace. Consumers with Wi-Fi access in their home can replace their traditional home phone with the F1000 and start reaping the benefits of wireless VoIP phone service right away."

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