Philips VOIP 080 Skype VOIP Travel Phone
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Customer Review: Work's great!
Summary: 4 Stars
Work's great well worth the price. I just wish you didn't need the software.Customer Review: There are better products out there for the price
Summary: 3 Stars
You have to hand it to Philips - they know how to get good photographers.
When I received the phone, all I saw was a cheap piece of plastic I got overcharged for. Ditto from other reviewers: they went *really* cheap on the USB cable. I thought mine would snap on first try.
Major minus: the installation process. Ok so I'm on Skype, and I want to make a call. Who said I had 1 hour to install a phone before doing so??? After running into customer service issues (and their service is really bad...), I ended up returning it. And I got an IPEVO FRee1 phone. Much, much better voice quality, easier installation, mac compatible.
So yeah, if you're patient think you can waste a lot of time for a piece of plastic, you can go with it. But there are better products out there.
Other tip: do NOT get a wireless with Skype. Skype is really bad with wireless, and all phones will drop calls like no other (at least once every phone call!). So make sure that if you get a Skype phone, that it's wired.
Customer Review: Plasticky yet cheap
Summary: 3 Stars
The phone has the weight and feel of a TV remote from a very cheap TV - and not a flatscreen. It's so insubstantial, I could accidentally sit on the whole unit all day and not notice.
It also behaves very strangely, by mysteriously adding and removing numbers when dialing. For example, if I dial 2125551010, it will sometime truncate the number to 15551010. So I have to dial from Skype to be guaranteed I'm not calling some psychopath in another state.
And then there's the sound quality. Well, I'm not sure what's changed but the quality I'm getting is lousy. I've tried it on 4 PCs now and there's a torturous machine-like hum the only the callee can hear. I thought nobody wanted to talk to me, and it was apparently due to the incessant and draining hum of the phone rather than me.
Customer Review: You get what you pay for
Summary: 3 Stars
I ordered this phone because of the price - most voip phones are quite expensive. I read the reviews before purchasing so was not expecting too much from this product.
First off, this is a very basic, cheap looking product, but it works fine and does the job for which it was designed and that was to replace the conventional headset. I had some problems with the software setup and had to resort to going to the the suppliers web site to download the latest drivers. It works fine now and I use it when I travel. It is permanently connected to my "road warrior" laptop.
Would I recommend it? Maybe - but remember that you get what you pay for.
Customer Review: Good for the price
Summary: 3 Stars
The quality of the calls are pretty good, the quality of the phone is on par with the price. Having a little problem with the software it doesn't load with skype every time, it says its not compatible with vista (old software i think). There maybe an update somewhere but haven't spent much effort to find it. I mainly bought phone to try out skype and have upgraded to the better Phillips phone and am very happy with it.