It is a nice and lovely peice of equipment with major disadvantages.
Pros : Connects easily, not much technical information required, cool white finish
Cons : Rubbish battery [hardly lasts 2 hours max which is advertised], keeps loosing the network often, doesnot automatically reconnects ... Read review
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calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world, anytime you have WiFi access, without a PC. All of your contacts are shown right on the phone's colour display so you will know exactly who is online. You will also be more available for your friends to call, because you no longer have to be on your PC to be connected. You can even make calls to ordinary phones using SkypeOut for just pennies a minute and NO MONTHLY FE...
calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world, anytime you have WiFi access, without a PC. All of your contacts are shown right on the phone's colour display so you will know exactly who is online. You will also be more available for your friends to call, because you no longer have to be on your PC to be connected. You can even make calls to ordinary phones using SkypeOut for just pennies a minute and NO MONTHLY FE...
Advantages: Connects easily, not much technical information required, cool white finish Disadvantages: Rubbish battery [hardly lasts 2 hours max which is advertised] ...
It is a nice and lovely peice of equipment with major disadvantages. Pros : Connects easily, not much technical information required, cool white finish
Cons : Rubbish battery [hardly lasts 2 hours max which is advertised], keeps loosing the network often, doesnot automatically reconnects to the network, poor sound quality, high bandwidth usage
More over on contacting Netgear, the support on this is not very good. Normally I like and use a lot of ...
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19.09.2007
AVOID at all costs Review ofNetgear's SPH101 Skype WiFi Phoneby
brianegge
Advantages: Would be great if it worked Disadvantages: Buggy software, buggy hardware, terrible support
I'm the unfortunate owner of this terrible product. The battery life is ridiculous. About two hours standby and one hour talk. You'll be lucky to talk for an hour, as it likes to reboot at random.
It no longer will automatically sign in. The people at Netgear tell me this is a Skype issue. I now get inverter whine whenever the backlight is on.
I purchased this phone hoping to be able to use Skype without using the computer. Also, it's nice to to ... ...the way they claim it does, I would be very happy. It can't log into most public WiFi hotspots, but my main use for it is at home - so that's a non-issue.
This phone is nothing short of worthless. I feel bad even selling it to someone. I wouldn't recommend this phone to a friend or enemy. ...
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This review is for the Belkin Wireless Skype Handset and not of the Skype system as such but a brief overview is required. In 2003 Skype (rymes with "type") released an idea that allowed a user to make calls from one computer to the another using an... more
