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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Electronics Brand: Philips EAN: 8712581326357 Is Autographed: 0 Is Fragile: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Philips Manufacturer: Philips Model: VOIP8411B/05 Publisher: Philips Release Date: 2007-05-15 Studio: Philips
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: battery life is fine if.. Comment: alot of reviews have said the battery life is hopeless this may be true but if you change the batterys to 2500 mh as apose to the 750 mh that come with nearly all electrical items these days most probably due to cost, then their fine also the sound quality is good granted its not crystal clear but lets be fair the first ipod wasnt as good as the ones they make now was it Customer Rating: Summary: Really Practical and great sound Comment: I was using the USB Cordless DUALphone for Skyping since ages. The phone build quality was terrible: the audio was bad and the screen progressively blanked out. It finally died on us and I had to find a new Skype phone. After doing some research I settled for the Philips VOIP8411B. My wife and I are really happy with it. The sound quality is perfect, the build is good and the screen (albeit a little cramped) is good. The ability to use the phone while the computer is off is really nice. Bottom line: a great product with no flaws apparent. Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome and it save you money!! Comment: Greatest purchase I have made in ages. Its easy to set up, easy to use and is as clear as speaking on a headset, only you dont have the cord wrapped around your neck! You can either type in the number or choose a contact, exactly as on the computer. When you dial out one simply clicks 'skype out' or 'landline'. Its that easy. Very user fiendly. I know there are cheaper options out there with black and white screens. i looked at them. Its worth spending the extra money on getting this phone as the colour screen makes it so much more user friendly. Within 6 months the phone will have paid for itself in call savings. Its a beautiful phone, if it was a woman I would make love to it every night! Customer Rating: Summary: Slightly underwhelming Comment: We bought one of these phones recently and for the price, I really wanted to love everything about it. It's a fairly neat looking phone (I don't have any major problem with the plastic or the look), and like other reviewers mentioned, it was a doddle to set up after plugging it into our router. Unfortunately, the phone itself has a few drawbacks that I can't just gloss over, although to be fair, some are just minor niggles. I think the following points are all worth considering before spending the money: 1. The battery life: Philips have designed a lovely, light, slim handset here but the size and shape come at the cost of staying power. With just 2 x AAA batteries in it, the handset just does not go the distance. The manufacturer claims that the batteries will support up to 5 days of standby, but any kind of use just eats up the power. And it takes up to 6 hours to fully charge the two tiny batteries when the phone is in its cradle! (Can be up to 10 minutes before you spot any signs of life at all if you let the batteries get flat enough!) I can see that soon we will be permanently leaving this phone in its cradle between calls; something that we might regard as normal if we did not already have an older cordless Panasonic phone whose battery life (in 2 x AA's) is just phenomenal in comparison. 2. The concept: What a good idea to have a dual-phone. Except that this particular phone has not really been implemented with that in mind - it is just too "Skype-focused". Preferably, it would be marketed as a Skype phone that, by-the-by, can also be used for landline calls. That would have set my expectations better. (And personally I might have been a bit reluctant to spend that much on a Skype phone... ) For example, the description above that the phone "stores all of your regular and Skype contacts" is VERY misleading. The phone does not have an independent internal "phonebook" at all. It looks up all your contacts from Skype. So, if you add a landline number as a "Contact" it immediately becomes a SkypeOut contact -- which also can be reached using the Landline option. I found that these added contacts now also showed up (and cluttered up) my regular contacts list in my Skype account on my PC. (Never mind the privacy implications of my entire phone book being online.) That might not generally be regarded as a particular problem, but if for any reason the Internet connection is down, then you just can't see any of your "Contacts" - Skype or otherwise. Or the recent call history - those are all cleared. To me it seems like a ridiculous design decision not to give the phone itself a little more independence in this regard. It also means that if you've added all your contacts and then want to use an alternate Skype account to log into the phone, all the contacts disappear because they go with the account not the phone. 3. The interface: Mostly clear and reasonably intuitive with a few minor niggles. One that particularly irked me is the entering of contacts. Can you believe that it is not possible to edit a contact's phone number through the phone once it has been saved? Seriously, I tried everything and scoured the manual! In the end I had 2 options: delete the contact and start again, or do it through Skype on my computer. 4. Login confusion. When I am logged in on the phone and I run Skype on my PC (to send an instant message or to fix a broken contact number, for example), my PC rings if someone places a Skype call to me. I know another reviewer didn't have this issue, so perhaps it is random, but either way, I don't see any means of telling it which login takes precedence. 5. Speaker phone: The speaker phone is MUCH louder and clearer for Skype calls than for landline calls. People on the other end of landline speakerphone conversations complain that they can't hear me properly and I can't hear them as clearly either. Lastly, SkypeOut has its own set of "hang ups" (some quite literal) which shouldn't really bias me against the phone except that this is so VERY much a Skype phone. After using up our free sample, we bought some SkypeOut credit. And yes, it is reasonably good value to make overseas and even local daytime calls. However, it only seems to work about 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time it just cuts off or neither party hears any sound. Nevertheless you ARE charged for the call time and connection. And there's no human operator to call and gripe to, as there is for some of the other cheap overseas call services. So in conclusion, I'd say that you should weigh up carefully what use you would put this phone to. If your usage is primarily Skype calls, and you want to spend this amount on a wireless Skype phone, then it would be a great choice. If you're looking for a new landline phone that also does Skype for occasional usage, then perhaps you'd be better off evaluating some of the other options with this functionality. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent product Comment: Installation easy, use easy... This is all I wanted of a phone and got it with this product. 5 star therefore. Cheers More Reviews
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