Review: Philips VOIP841 Internet Phone
There are plenty of Skype handsets around at the moment – and most of them seem rather overpriced, often coming in at £100-£130.
Philip’s VOIP841 phone is in the same bracket, but it does have another trick up its sleeve to help justify that rather high price tag.
Neatly designed in glossy black, and more solidly constructed than most of the rival Skype phones we’ve seen so far, the VOIP841 works with both Skype and your existing landline.
This means you can make cheap calls using your Skype account, but can also receive incoming calls to your landline number as well.
To install the phone you use an Ethernet cable to connect its base unit to your broadband router, and an ordinary phone cable to connect it to your landline telephone socket.
The phone will then ring when it receives an incoming call on your landline, and for outgoing calls you simply use the menu on the phone’s small LCD screen to switch between Skype and landline calls.
Source and more info: vnunet