Internet and VOIP phones

“The Boy Genius Report says it has seen documents that suggest the launch will occur on June 27,” smartphonetoday recently reported on its website. However, T-Mobile USA is being tightlipped on the matter.

The new wireless service, which underwent trials in Seattle for longer than a year, lets T-Mobile’s subscribers make free phone calls using their at-home WiFi (News – Alert) network or from any public WiFi hot spot.

Earlier, subscribers using the Nokia 6136 and the Samsung T709 dual mode phones could only place free calls over WiFi. T-Mobile has since moved to the newer Nokia 6086 and Samsung (News – Alert) t409 for HotSpot @Home.

According to news reports, T-Mobile HotSpot @Home costs $20 a month on top of your regular cell phone plan. It delivers unlimited Voice over WiFi calls from over 8,000 hotspots as well as your home through a WiFi access point.

As the service is based on Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology, it allows users seamlessly switch voice calls and data connections between a WiFi and cellular, depending on which is available and which is most cost effective at a particular moment.

Another advantage for users is that once they are in a hotspot, they gain access to a higher speed network, which allows them to download mobile content including Web pages, music files, video files, and games – much faster than they can from a 2G, or even 3G wireless networks.

Source and more info: tmcnet

VoIP phone manufacturer snom technology AG and SOA-based business communications solutions provider BlueNote Networks (News – Alert) announced on Monday a strategic partnership. The two companies are, after extensive certification procedures, are now marketing solutions involving BlueNote’s SessionSuite software and snom’s VoIP phones, which are proven interoperable.

Alan Rosenberg, director of product management at BlueNote, said that the company’s customers are accustomed to flexible solutions that are easy and fast to deploy. This partnership with snom extends that winning recipe by ensuring that BlueNote solutions work with snom’s entire product line.

“Now, we can easily incorporate snom phones into our overall solutions,” Rosenberg said in a statement.

That product line includes all of snom’s telephones, including the 300, 320, 360 and 370 models. Each of these products is designed easy configurability and manageability—using a keypad-cursor, dedicated function keys and menus, or Web browser. The phones include user-friendly features such as programmable keys and downloadable ringtones.

Further, the phones comply with the IETF’s latest recommendations for authentication and security using industry standards.

These phones can now be paired with BlueNote’s SessionSuite family of solutions, which are designed to integrate voice, video and other interactive communications functions with business applications using Web services. These solutions help improve collaboration, productivity and business agility.

Source and more info: tmcnet

VoIP phone manufacturer GenNext Technology has announced the worldwide launch of its new small business network solution.

Specifically created for the small office/home office (SoHo) market, the system includes a cordless phone and wireless router which works with both web-based and SIP-based VoIP services.

Additionally, users get piece of mind that their service will not drop out due to power failure as the system comes with an uniterruptible power supply, which is monitored to protect against spikes which might damage the system.

Source and more info: telappliant

VOIP phones have been a benefit to me for a while now and it’s great to see more new hardware like this product “The Kensington Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone”.

The Kensington Vo200 is different in a few ways to other VOIP phones as it slides into your laptops PC Card slot to store and recharge.

Your able to make clear calls, get 3 hours of talk time and up to 30 hours of standby time with the Vo200, the blinking light lets you know when you have only 10% of talk time left and this internet phone is also compatible with your favorite Internet phone services Google, Yahoo, MSN and Skype.

Source and more info: product-reviews