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Philips VOIP8411B VOIP And Skype Compatible Digital Cordless Telephone
 
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Philips VOIP8411B VOIP And Skype Compatible Digital Cordless Telephone

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Technical Details

  • Free Skype calls everywhere
  • Installation free
  • Landline and Internet calls on one handset
  • No need to switch on the PC
  • See your contacts in colour
  • Speaker phone - Talk handsfree�
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Product details

  • Item Weight: 382 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.8 Kg
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  • Item model number: VOIP8411B/05
  • ASIN: B000ODUVDE
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 14 Mar 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,593 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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    #28 in  Electronics & Photo > Phones > VOIP & Skype > VOIP & Skype Handsets
    #30 in  Electronics & Photo > Phones > Digital Cordless (DECT) Phones > DECT & VOIP Phones

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

A dual phone for all your callsskype

The Philips VOIP841 dual phone enables you to make or take regular landline calls and free Skype internet calls from the same cordless handset, with or without your PC switched on! That means you can replace your traditional handset with a single Philips VoIP phone for all your Skype and regular calls. Simply switch between regular and internet calling at the push of a button any time you like.

Philips VOIP8411B/05 Internet - DECT Telephone

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Offline Internet telephony

No need to switch on your PC!

VOIP841 is the first DECT cordless phone with Skype that works without a PC, offering consumers total flexibility and independence from the PC a full colour graphic display and outstanding sound clarity brings the emotion back to calls.

Use Skype freelyPhilipsbox

  • Installation free
  • No need to switch on the PC

Use Skype easily

  • See your contacts in colour
  • Speakerphone – Talk hands-free

Traditional and Internet phone

  • Free Skype calls everywhere
  • Landlines and Internet calls on one handset

 

The Philips VoIP dual phone is incredibly easy to set up. You can start calling after just three simple steps:

  1. Power up by connecting to a mains power outlet.
  2. Plug in to both your regular phone line and an internet line.
  3. Sign in to Skype using your existing Skype username and password or by creating a new account directly via the phone.Skypelight

 

That's all there is to making and receiving Skype and regular calls right away. Simply use the handset to select your Skype buddies or dial a regular number and you'll be talking in moments. You don't even need to turn on your computer.

Switch simply between Skype and your landline

Switching between Skype and regular calling is as simple as pushing a button because the Philips VoIP dual phone is always connected to your internet and landline. For regular numbers not yet on your contact list, simply dial the number and select the landline option from the on-screen menu.

Use Skype freely anywhere in your houseLifestyle

The Philips VoIP dual phone works cordlessly with DECT technology so you don't need to be next to your PC every time you use Skype. You can make all your calls via the cordless handset and roam freely around your home while you phone.

 

 

 

 

Make or receive calls with your PC off

The Philips VOIP841 dual phone can be used as a regular or Skype phone anytime, anywhere because there's no need to switch on your computer. Sign in or out of your Skype account, dial Skype numbers, manage your Skype contacts and dial regular numbers using your current landline, no matter where you are in the house. There's no need to touch your PC ever again for Skype calls!

The beauty of advanced design

A dual phone with a sleek and elegant design. Slim and curved, it will look good in your home and feel great in your hand. And it's more than a pretty face, because the Philips VoIP dual phone is designed from top to bottom for complete convenience and ease of use.

Full-color display with Skype iconsContacts
A bright, clear screen on the handset displays telephone numbers and Skype names and icons in full-color. That makes it easy to see at a glance who's calling and which of your Skype buddies are available, as well as manage your Skype account.

Get access to all your contacts
The Philips VOIP841 dual phone stores all of your regular and Skype contacts, allowing you to access them via the handset's full-color display. That means it's a easy to manage your Skype account from the handset without sitting at your computer.

Crystal clear phone calls

Skype has crystal clear sound that makes it seems like you're actually in the same room as the person with whom you're talking. That's because the technology behind Skype doesn't compress the audio for that muffled effect you usually get with regular phones. The Philips VoIP takes this one step further with Voice Enhancing Technology. You'll never want to go back to regular calling!

Skype line and landline

The Philips VoIP dual phone makes and takes both regular landline calls and free Skype calls. That means you can keep your landline number and make calls the way you always do, as well as benefiting from all the advantages of Skype.

Speakerphone

Use the speakerphone to make hands-free calls or take advantage of Skype free conference calling with up to nine friends at once.

Stay in touch with technology too

Skype is constantly upgraded and updated with new and improved features - like enhanced conference calling - that you'll be able to download and use via your Philips VoIP handset, just like using Skype on a computer

 

VOIP 4

Skype Certified

The Philips VoIP is Skype certified. That means it not only works perfectly with Skype but also feels great to use.

VOIP 2

Skype conference calling.

Skype also lets you make free conference calls with up to nine people at once. Invite all your friends or family to chat on one call and enjoy the party!

VOIP 1

2007 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.

The Philips VoIP dual phones have been awarded in 2007 with the CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards. The prestigious awards are given to groundbreaking consumer electronics products with outstanding design and engineering.

VOIP 3

 

 

 

 



Box Contents
  • Analog line cable
  • Base
  • Batteries
  • CDROM
  • Charger
  • Handset
  • Power supply: 2
  • Quick Start Guide
  • Ethernet cable

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    37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly underwhelming, 4 Feb 2008
    By Julie Brazier (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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    We bought one of these phones recently and for the price, I really wanted to love everything about it. It's a fairly neat looking phone (I don't have any major problem with the plastic or the look), and like other reviewers mentioned, it was a doddle to set up after plugging it into our router.

    Unfortunately, the phone itself has a few drawbacks that I can't just gloss over, although to be fair, some are just minor niggles. I think the following points are all worth considering before spending the money:

    1. The battery life: Philips have designed a lovely, light, slim handset here but the size and shape come at the cost of staying power. With just 2 x AAA batteries in it, the handset just does not go the distance.

    The manufacturer claims that the batteries will support up to 5 days of standby, but any kind of use just eats up the power. And it takes up to 6 hours to fully charge the two tiny batteries when the phone is in its cradle! (Can be up to 10 minutes before you spot any signs of life at all if you let the batteries get flat enough!)

    I can see that soon we will be permanently leaving this phone in its cradle between calls; something that we might regard as normal if we did not already have an older cordless Panasonic phone whose battery life (in 2 x AA's) is just phenomenal in comparison.

    2. The concept: What a good idea to have a dual-phone. Except that this particular phone has not really been implemented with that in mind - it is just too "Skype-focused". Preferably, it would be marketed as a Skype phone that, by-the-by, can also be used for landline calls. That would have set my expectations better. (And personally I might have been a bit reluctant to spend that much on a Skype phone... )

    For example, the description above that the phone "stores all of your regular and Skype contacts" is VERY misleading. The phone does not have an independent internal "phonebook" at all. It looks up all your contacts from Skype. So, if you add a landline number as a "Contact" it immediately becomes a SkypeOut contact -- which also can be reached using the Landline option. I found that these added contacts now also showed up (and cluttered up) my regular contacts list in my Skype account on my PC. (Never mind the privacy implications of my entire phone book being online.)

    That might not generally be regarded as a particular problem, but if for any reason the Internet connection is down, then you just can't see any of your "Contacts" - Skype or otherwise. Or the recent call history - those are all cleared. To me it seems like a ridiculous design decision not to give the phone itself a little more independence in this regard. It also means that if you've added all your contacts and then want to use an alternate Skype account to log into the phone, all the contacts disappear because they go with the account not the phone.

    3. The interface: Mostly clear and reasonably intuitive with a few minor niggles. One that particularly irked me is the entering of contacts. Can you believe that it is not possible to edit a contact's phone number through the phone once it has been saved? Seriously, I tried everything and scoured the manual! In the end I had 2 options: delete the contact and start again, or do it through Skype on my computer.

    4. Login confusion. When I am logged in on the phone and I run Skype on my PC (to send an instant message or to fix a broken contact number, for example), my PC rings if someone places a Skype call to me. I know another reviewer didn't have this issue, so perhaps it is random, but either way, I don't see any means of telling it which login takes precedence.

    5. Speaker phone: The speaker phone is MUCH louder and clearer for Skype calls than for landline calls. People on the other end of landline speakerphone conversations complain that they can't hear me properly and I can't hear them as clearly either.

    Lastly, SkypeOut has its own set of "hang ups" (some quite literal) which shouldn't really bias me against the phone except that this is so VERY much a Skype phone. After using up our free sample, we bought some SkypeOut credit. And yes, it is reasonably good value to make overseas and even local daytime calls. However, it only seems to work about 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time it just cuts off or neither party hears any sound. Nevertheless you ARE charged for the call time and connection. And there's no human operator to call and gripe to, as there is for some of the other cheap overseas call services.

    So in conclusion, I'd say that you should weigh up carefully what use you would put this phone to. If your usage is primarily Skype calls, and you want to spend this amount on a wireless Skype phone, then it would be a great choice. If you're looking for a new landline phone that also does Skype for occasional usage, then perhaps you'd be better off evaluating some of the other options with this functionality.
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    16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could be better., 18 Sep 2007
    By Renato Gomes Ferraz (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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    I have purchased this phone a few weeks ago, and although there aren't any major issues with it, I did expect more for the price it costs.
    The finishing looks a little cheap. From the shinny pictures provided by Philips it does look very nice... I don't know what kind of lighting was used or retouching that was done, but in my opinion the real thing could be better.
    Setup was a breeze. Just connected it to my router and inserted my login/password. Skype works well. I was afraid there were going to be problems since I am always also connected on my computer and I wasn't sure how Skype would handle 2 simultaneous logins. But there weren't any issues.
    The phone's interface could be more intuitive and responsive. Also I was disappointed that you are not able to send skype text messages by using the phone.
    Voice quality is the same as using a headset connected directly to my computer. This means that skype calls are very good, skypein calls are good and skypeout calls are average (at least for the countries I call).
    One other thing is that before purchasing the phone here in the UK, I contacted Philips support by E-mail asking whether this phone worked only on Europe's 230V / 50Hz or if its power adapters (it comes with 2) also supported 120V / 60Hz. A lot of electronics do nowadays, including my wireless router. I am currently living in the UK, but intended to use it abroad as well. Philips UK support answered me saying that it did work with both. However, upon receiving it saw it didn't. I contacted Philips UK again, they apologized for the mistake but said that the only solution would be for me to buy new power adapters from Philips USA. They were unable to say how much it would cost or how I could do it.
    But I am still happy that I am now able to use Skype without having to be connected to a computer.
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    24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great potential investment., 21 Sep 2007
    By G. Wright (Dagenham, Essex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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    I had no previous experience of VOiP telephones but was attracted by the convenience and potential financial savings. I was originally going for a bog-standard, cheaper Skype handset but looking into it in more detail, I was seduced by the adaptabilty of the Philips 8411. I preferred the idea of being able to use the 'phone independently - my partner could talk to her relatives for an hour or so without interferring with my PC usage or even requiring the computer to be on (well, apart from power to the modem).

    I have a good, single PC setup connected to cable broadband. However, this telephone required me to additionally invest in a router so I purchased the modest D-Link DIR-100 for around £20. Their installation CD made it simple to connect it to my cable modem and then to my computer and the 'phone. I did fine tune the router through the configuration utility later on, but it certainly worked okay following the simple 'quick install'.

    The information displayed on the 'phone's screen is clear, attractive and functional and the menu is intuitive to follow. As none of our contacts actually has a Skype 'phone as yet, we subscribe to Skype-pro (for almost-free national calls) and buy the Skype-out credit just to use for cheaper calls to landlines. To be honest, I am totally unaware of any obvious difference in the sound quality compared to a normal telephone. Whilst the Philips 8411 has dual connections and will also serve as a landline, switching between the two, I prefer to maintain the convenience of a seperate telephone for the now mainly incoming calls.

    I've have this telephone for around three weeks now and consider the investment well worth-while. Used sensibly and strategically, the potential savings can be considerable and the 'phone will eventually more than pay for itself.
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