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The Cordless DUALphone is a cordless telephone that can be connected to both a standard telephone jack and the USB port of a PC. The display shows whether your friends who also use Skype are online. lf they are, you simply have to press the appropriate green button and talk to them for free no matter where they are in the world. lf their PC is switched off, or you want to call someone who doesn’t use Skype, you simply press the other green button and call via the standard telephone connection. Simply connect the DUALphone to the USB port on your PC and then install the software. The telephone is then ready to make and receive calls via Skypeln/Skype0ut or the normal analog line.

You can dial and receive normal telephone calls or calls over the lnternet or via Skype0ut or Skypeln. There’s also no need to sit in front of your PC anymore to make free calls over the lnternet. With the DUALphone, you can roam within a radius of up to 900' from the base station.

The handset includes a 160-entry telephone book, a 30-station call log and display-and-redial for your last 30 calls. A headset jack is built in, for comfortable hands-free use. There's a talk time of up to 6.5 hours, and standby of up to 100 hours. While it operates as a standard land-line with no more than a power adapter and telephone line, the minimum PC system requirements for Skype features are: Windows XP, 2000 or 2003 server, 400 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, 15 MB free hard disk space, a CD-R0M drive, any internet connection and a PSTN connection.

What's in the Box:
Handset, base station, AC adapter, NiMH battery, user's guide, CD-R0M, warranty card

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Buyer's feedback: - * Wonderful... Except the LCD Readout ...
Purchased this product when it first came out. The LCD panel began to fail shortly after purchase. Yet I like the phone so much I purchased several more after reports that the DUALPhone LCD panel had been replaced. Unfortunately, this is still a key failure point. I will replace this phone and toss it in the garbage.

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Buyer's feedback: - Half-baked
I've used it for more than a year now with Skype. I have 2 handsets.
It was the first reasonably-priced phone of its type that I could afford. So I got it because there was nothing better...
The phone software improved a few times, but the phone continues to have problems. Sometimes turns off every few minutes during the call. The volume always has to be turned up. The battery life is very short, especially with a handset.
I use it as my primary home phone. So, it's never been as reliable for that as it should be. Don't invest in this half-baked product, if you can afford something better.
When I have the money, I will buy the Philips voip841. I just bought one for my Mom. It doesn't need to be connected to the PC to work, and works much better.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Phone works... for a while ...
We bought this phone about a year ago and everything worked pretty smoothly for a little while, but after a couple of months the LCD started not displaying everything (within the year the LCD screen has become only about 15-20% visible). Another problem that just started happening a few weeks ago is that the speaker on the phone has stopped working multiple times, and it has required us to take out the battery, wait a few minutes, and then put the batteries back in before the speaker will start working for another day or two. I got so tired of missing my SkypeIn calls (because I couldn't hear anyone on the other end) that I have now purchased the Philips VOIP841 (just installed it today). It sucks to have to buy a new dual mode phone so soon.

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Buyer's feedback: - Lousy phone
This is the worst phone we have ever owned. The phone is barely one-year old and has never functioned well. It routinely does not capture numbers that are pressed requiring us to dial and redial and redial... you get the point. Now, the screen is malfunctioning so we are unable to see the number we are attempting to dial and our caller id is service is now useless. Avoid this phone at all costs!!

Is anyone out there happy with a dual Skype/standard phone? We need a new one!

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Buyer's feedback: - * Very user-friendly, but buggy and no longer supported ...
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After buying my first DUALphone in December of 2005, I liked it enough to buy two more almost immediately for friends and family. The phone is very easy to use -- you simply plug it in to the USB port of your computer, make sure Skype's running, and that's it. As its name also implies, you can plug a regular telephone line into it and make calls that way. You can actually do both at once, and choose when to use Skype vs. your phone line very easily.

Now for the drawbacks. For one, every time somebody on my Skype buddy list changes their status, the phone beeps and flashes a message on its display screen -- AND THEN HANGS UP THE ACTIVE PHONE CALL. :( Also, occasionally my cheekbone will hit one of the buttons near the top of the keypad, which will mute the conversation. I can never figure out how to un-do that, and thus have to hang up the phone call. Another problem is that my phone will always hang up after exactly 2 hours and 2 minutes of call time. Also, the phone does get rather hot after an hour or more of use, but this is also true for most cellphones. Finally, it seems as though the manufacturer of this phone has stopped supporting it, as of some time in 2007?

In summary, this is a great phone; it's very easy to use, you simply plug it in and it works. However, the firmware bugs, somewhat strange keypad layout bugs, and termination of support by the manufacturer means I can't recommend it as highly as I would like to. I will be shopping for another Skype-compatible phone soon.