Philips PC-free Skype/DECT phone finally coming next month

[Bob Crabtree]

March should at last see the arrival in the UK of the Philips VOIP841, a PC-free combined DECT/Skype phone that we reckoned - when it was debuted back in September at IFA - Skype users would lust after mightily.

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[snedger]

Well that's cerainly demolished my assuredness that I was going to suggest that my gf get the same Panasonic as me!
Maybe I could give her my Panny and get the Philips for myself.
Although why exactly do I need Skype anymore when Dickie Pickle's giving me 24 hour free (package paid for) national calls?

[LordOfLA]

Hmmm. I'm sold.

Portable with speakerphone and it looks awesome too!

Edit: Didn't think this was my first post to hexus though....

[Dreaming]

With Skype Pro it's £109 rather than £129. By my reckoning, even if you were using skypeout, you may as well sign up for the first 5 months to get registered then buy this phone, because you'd still save money (It's £8 I think).

I want one, but it's a lot of money... *thinks*

But I spend an awful lot of time on Skype...

[dave87]

It looks cool. I'd buy that or a Panasonic (as I don't use Skype...yet)

[Dreaming]

I'm trying to get everyone I know on Skype so we can ring each other for free. Like at school when everyone went round trying to get on the same network because it gave you free sms to other phones on the network . Not working though. The beauty of skype is you can have you cheap landline for whatever, and set up a seperate skype account and forget about it, except when you're ringing or getting a call from someone else who uses skype.

I think something like this is good, because it's a hassle having to be always signed in and being connected to your computer. Only problem is my uni network only allows one mac address, and I assume this will use another, so will have to go down to the network service and ask them to ok it. They're pretty cool with using the internet though as long as it's not torrents or gaming

[Bob Crabtree]

With Skype Pro it's £109 rather than £129. By my reckoning, even if you were using skypeout, you may as well sign up for the first 5 months to get registered then buy this phone, because you'd still save money (It's £8 I think).

I want one, but it's a lot of money... *thinks*

But I spend an awful lot of time on Skype...

Skype has dropped its price on the Philips phone in the last few days.

When I wrote this story on Feb 21 - Skype Pro launches today - and we're STILL not impressed - Skype's price was £149.

Now that it's down to £129 - £1 less than the SRP, rather than £20 more - the Skype Pro deal looks a whole lot more enticing, if, that is, you fancy one of these Philips VOIP841 phones which, with the £21 reduction (the pounds figure is now up on the Skype Pro page, too), you can get it for £108.