Keyspan Cordless VoIP Phone: soon to be chattin' for $79

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Aug 28th 2006 at 1:15PM

It seems like everyone and their sister is coming out with Skype-compatible phones these days. And taking a page out of the handheld barcode scanner design playbook, Keyspan wants a piece of the VoIP pie too. Its new $79 model, imaginatively called the "Cordless VoIP Phone", has 15 hours of talk time, 1200 hours of standby time, USB/AAA power, and it's Mac and PC friendly, a'course. However, Keyspan doesn't list where you can buy this handset, or when it will be available. That aside, if another company (besides FiWin) really wanted to make the real-deal ultimate killer handset, they'd make a phone that was Gizmo/Zfone and Skype-friendly -- we'd definitely be interested. But apparently Skype doesn't like to play nice with SIP phones or any other kind of VoIP, which is a real shame because there's such a great marketing opportunity here -- they could call it SIPpe, like "sippy", as in the cup. Whaddya say?

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: cordless, gizmo project, GizmoProject, handset, keyspan, skype, voip, zfone

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whatsaname @ Aug 28th 2006 1:24PM

looks like a tazer. Is it a tazer too? or maybe the top part is for shaving.

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PEZ @ Aug 28th 2006 1:36PM

What exactly about this cordless phone makes it cordless? USB power? Last I remember, thats a cord!

I guess there is a base using 900 or 2.4Mhz.

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Cyrus Farivar @ Aug 28th 2006 2:12PM

When you use it with batteries, that makes it cordless, no?

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deter1ii @ Aug 28th 2006 3:10PM

@ PEZ
How do you charge your phone dumb ass

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Bill Gram-Reefer @ Aug 28th 2006 6:17PM

Per Keyspan's press release:

The Keyspan Cordless VoIP Phone is available to consumers from the Keyspan Store (http://www.keyspanstore.com), as well as from PC Connection, Amazon.com and other leading resellers of computer accessories. It is available to resellers through Ingram Micro and D&H.

For more information and images see
http://www.keyspan.com/products/voip/vp24a/

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Bill Gram-Reefer @ Aug 28th 2006 6:44PM

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Cyrus Farivar @ Aug 28th 2006 7:12PM

Yeah, but if you actually search the store it doesn't show up.

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VoIP Ed @ Sep 1st 2006 12:07AM

Looks like they've added a button to a page with resellers now - Best Buy, Buy.com and Amazon.

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israel @ May 26th 2007 10:08PM

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israel @ May 26th 2007 10:09PM

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