Linksys introduces CIT310 DECT phone with Yahoo! inside

Nothing gets our heart pumping quite like a new VOIP handset, and when it's a dual-function model that can connect to a landline too, well, we sometimes have trouble containing our excitement. The latest system in a seemingly endless parade of similar products comes from Linksys, whose CIT310 supports Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, and looks a lot snazzier than some of the other phones we've seen from this company. Based on the DECT standard, the CIT310 hooks up to your PC's USB port and your regular telephone line, allowing you to make and receive both Yahoo! and POTS calls anywhere within range of the base unit. Additional features include zip code-based business searches directly from the handset's small color screen (including one click calling) and local weather info in case your weather station, TV, PC, thermometer, and newspaper all happen to crash simultaneously. This model will available for an even $100 exclusively through Amazon until sometime in January, so you should be able to pick one up in a bricks-and-mortar store right after you've finished returning all those other VOIP devices you're bound to receive this holiday season.

[Via Geekzone]

[Russ @ Nov 9th 2006 11:29PM]

i'd prefer one that plugs into your router, i.e. doesn't require your PC to be turned on, or have some shoddy software installed.

[levander @ Nov 10th 2006 1:43AM]

It's always nice to see a company doing a nice job design how their product looks. Everything, except for the Yahoo graphic that looks like a Saturday morning kids cartoon designed to sell children advertising, looks great. Hopefully Linksys makes another models of this same phone. I'd love this as an expandable handset sytem. You know, there one where there's a base, and then you buy a bunch of handsets that communicate with the base wirelessly.

[IsNoGood @ Nov 10th 2006 5:26AM]

Yahoo, I'm getting fed up with Yahoo its hiding in my PDF reader trying to install its self 10 times a week, leaking data and is in general just a legal spy ware, get it on a phone ? No way kill it who want a Yahoo Phone = not even free I tell you, go home with you tool bars mail tools Yahoo photos and all that junk, I close to run Linux just to get away from Yahoo, it more Buhoo

[Pingspike @ Nov 10th 2006 8:54AM]

If it were skype, hell yeah i'd buy that.

Yahoo ? yeah right.

gief skype lub

[jay @ Nov 10th 2006 9:13AM]

I have been using the CIT200 (linksys skype phone) for about 6 months now and its crashed on me maybe twice. The range is good, so is the voice quality.

If the yahoo phone had been available 6 months ago I wouldve got it in a heartbeat, I switched to skype because there was no hardware support for yahoo at the moment. I will probably switch back to yahoo this january when this phones goes live.