Skype phones extend free Internet calls one-step further. With USB Skype Phone, you can throw away the headsets and use a hard phone that looks and feels like a traditional phone. Skype is currently the largest, free Internet telephony software maker in the world and moving into the Skype phone market, as opposed to the pure desktop software market, is a leap ahead.
Skype, based in Luxemburg, has offered free worldwide peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) service for several years now. What this means is that you download the free Skype software onto your PC, Mac or PDA (or a few other devices), install the software, plug in your headset and start talking for free to friends worldwide that also have Skype installed. If you'd rather can someone on a traditional landline or cellular phone, then Skype also offers deeply discounted rates for this service as well.
Skype has also teamed up with phone-maker Siemens to help penetrate the cordless market. Siemens has developed a USB adapter that lets USB Skype Phone users plug-n-play a cordless phone into their PC's. The Siemens Gigaset M34 USB PC adapter works with the recently launched Gigaset C340/345 and Gigaset CX340/345isdn, Gigaset S440/445 and Gigaset SX440/445isdn, Gigaset S645 and Gigaset SL440.
Skype WiFi phones are on the verge of becoming a reality. PDA-maker, i-mate has already introduced its wireless PDA device proloaded with Skype software. CEO Niklas Zennstrom reported that a mobile version of Skype will be available this year at the April 2005 VON Conference in Toronto.
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