Philips reveals VP6500, VP6000 WiFi VoIP handsets with video

by Cyrus Farivar posted Dec 14th 2006 at 1:49PM

Get ready folks, there's two new Philips WiFi video VoIP handsets comin' down the pike. We just caught wind of this white hotness on the FCC site, and they do look mighty swanky. The VP 6500 and VP 6000 are similar in many ways, as they sport a 2.2-inch screen with 65,000 colors and a QCIF+ 176 x 220 display, and a rotating 240-degree VGA cam. From what we can tell, the VP 6500 also comes with a TV out mode, letting you connect your handset to a TV via a component cable (although we don't know how good of a picture quality you'll get when viewed on your sexy new flat-screen display). Further, your calls should go through those common encryption protocols WEP, WAP and WPA2 without a problem. One possible downside of this: if you thought that folks talking on their handsets in public was annoying, wait until they start making faces at their phones in public.

Filed under: Wireless

Tags: philips, sip, video, video chat, VideoChat, voip, vp 6000, vp 6500, Vp6000, Vp6500, wifi

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Dane @ Dec 14th 2006 2:40PM

"wait until they start making faces at their phones in public" - don't you people have 3G over there? I can't imagine that anyone using this phone would video call in a public place, 3G has been available here in the UK for over 3 years now and video calling is still seen as a novelty which not many people use.

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ELQ @ Dec 14th 2006 4:10PM

This runs Linux and Qtopia btw. It is supposed to be SIP-based.

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JL @ Dec 14th 2006 6:07PM

Yay! Finally some Wifi Voip products not "bound" to Skype...
Definitely a relief!

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Shawn Van Every @ Jan 11th 2007 8:21PM

Any mention of this at CES?

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