Almost time to throw away that cell phone
Our family has been using vonage for about 2 years now. Depending on the WiFi availiability in your area, this could be either a “must have” or “must avoid”–for now.
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Vonage will announce on Tuesday the availability of its long-anticipated portable Wi-Fi phone that allows users to use their Vonage IP telephony when they’re connected to any public hot spot.
Vonage already offers a softphone client, which users can download from the Web site to turn their laptops into Vonage phones. But now the company will sell a handset called the F1000 manufactured by UTStarcom, which will offer Vonage’s voice over IP (VoIP) service over any public 802.11b network.
The phone is configured to allow customers to use existing Vonage call features, such as three-way calling, caller ID and voice mail. Phones will also have phone book favorites with distinctive ring options including silent, vibrate and selectable ring tones. Users will also be able to configure and save Wi-Fi profiles for easy connectivity. The F1000’s battery offers about five hours of talk time and up to 50 to 100 hours of standby, Vonage said. (more…)
Duane,
We have been using it for a couple of months and my wife hates it. Customer Service sucks, and the sound quality is not what we expected. I am hesitent to dump it though cause it so cheap, such a hassle to migrate your phone number.
Comment by BH | December 13, 2005
Are you using DSL or cable?
Its been great for us.
Comment by Duane | December 14, 2005
DSL
Comment by BH | December 14, 2005
We’ve been using cable with our vonage service. I know that they advertise that you can use DSL, but to me that is still defeating the purpose of getting vonage in the first place.
Could it be a bandwidth issue (I’m no expert)? How about checking out their discussion groups?
Anything else I could suggest to you at this point and Vonage is going to have to break a lil’ sumptin’ off for a brotha on his next bill.
Comment by Duane | December 14, 2005