Kensington Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone

Kensington just popped out the Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone, a new Bluetooth-enabled handset for making VoIP calls. You gotta use it paired with your PC -- if you're fixing to go direct you're better off with a WiFi VoIP phone -- but the Vo200 does have a couple of nice features, like support for making calls over Skype, MSN, Yahoo, and Google and the ability to fold up for storage in a PC card slot. Retails for $89.99.

[Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Jan 8th 2007 4:00PM]

Cool form factor! I hope it sticks.

That way phone doesn't need to compromise between size of phone itself (what affects position of mic) and size of keyboard (I can't use the damm tiny keys of majority modern phones!).

Also it's better than clamshell since main screen isn't hidden.

[Fishd @ Jan 8th 2007 5:24PM]

I got one of these things with my Acer TM8204 around a year ago... it's not bad but it's easier to use a bluetooth headset so I've never used it.

Hopefully Kensington will have decent manuals with it... as Acer gave hardly any instruction on how to pair it etc... hence it was a complete PitA to use.

[Isaac @ Jan 8th 2007 6:49PM]

Looks exactly like by acer bluetooth phone...which came free with the laptop

[thequinox @ Jan 9th 2007 12:18AM]

Yeah, most of the high end Acer notebooks that we sell at my store have these bundled with them. They have been out for at least a year or so.

[Ryan @ Jan 9th 2007 11:42AM]

lol, this exact thing came w/ my acer tm 8200 that I bought feb 06