Clipcomm BS-T100V converts VoIP to your mobile via Bluetooth

With Skype and other assorted VoIP services getting more and more popular, you might be eyeing one of those new handsets we've been showing you for the last few months. However, some of you might have wondered why you'd want to buy another handset when you probably have a perfectly good cellphone with the necessary internals to do the job, right? You're in luck, as such a product just debuted at the VoIP / IPTV World 2006 expo in Korea: Clipcomm's BS-T100V will convert your home VoIP service and send it over Bluetooth to your celly, letting you talk up a storm without using a ton of those precious minutes. (Of course, if you're a T-Mobile customer in Seattle, you could get HotSpot @Home right now.) As happy as this product makes us, we still can't get too excited yet given that we don't know what it'll cost, nor if it'll ever make it across that bigger pond to the West.

[Via AVING]

[sallyessington @ Nov 25th 2006 10:10AM]

This sounds really interesting and would def appeal to me...lets hope it takes off!

[xhumanterrorx @ Nov 25th 2006 10:11AM]

1 thing to say..............
BRILLANT!!!!!
the way they keep devloping the VoIP scene we wont even need land lines anymore, except for them pesky 56k AOL users out there......

[YouCantHandleTheTooth @ Nov 25th 2006 10:12AM]

There's one problem with this. I don't know if this is true of all bluetooth enabled phones, but mine can only talk to one device at a time. I wouldn't be able to use this AND use my bluetooth headset at the same time.

[benjaminkeeleruk @ Nov 25th 2006 10:16AM]

Yeah and another thing to consider is the drain on the phone's battery due to bluetooth being used a lot!

[vidzguy @ Nov 25th 2006 10:20AM]

The limitations of bluetooth is what will affect users who want to try this. I'm not sure if my phone will work using multiple bt connections either...

[cheekky @ Nov 25th 2006 10:44AM]

BT already did this... but you did have to use their own handsets.... probably why it never took off then...

[Henry @ Nov 25th 2006 11:27AM]

I would not hold your breath. I attended this conference and talked to the reps at this booth. As far as I could understand they have not sold a single unit and don't seem to be on track to do so. This is little more then a working prototype. Not available anywhere.