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Written by Adam Gosling
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
Only last week we were reporting about the latest Dual Skype/PSTN phone
from RTX. Now the company has another announcement to make. This time
its a less spectacular dual USB/pSTN Skype phone that does require a PC
to make calls.
The new DUALphone 3058 is a cordless Internet phone and ordinary
telephone in one. Unlike the 3088 the company upgraded last week with
multiple handset capabilities this device plugs into your personal
computer, rather than directly into your broadband router.
Both, of course, plug into you regular fixed line phone socket to make
PSTN calls, but unlike the 3088, the DUALphone require the PC to place
a Skype call.
It is still a cordless phone and does not plug direcrtly into your PC,
so you can make calls from anywhere in the house/office, but your PC
must be turned on.
Other than that the phne has all the features you have come to expect
from a Skype phone, the handset‘s colour display shows whether other
Skype users on your contact list are available. If they are, users
simply have to press the Skype button to talk to them for free.
If your buddies are offline, you can simply use the ordinary landline
via the regualr phone service as normal. Alternatively, you can make
cheap SkypeOut calls to landlines and mobiles anywhere in the world.
Skype users can also purchase an optional SkypeIn number that allows
them to receive calls from regular telephones via Skype.
"We are excited that we are still the only telephone manufacturer and
design house who are capable of making Skype handsets with wideband
audio, giving users superior sound quality," said RTX CEO Tage
Rasmussen. "With the speakerphone, colour display and the support of
Microsoft Vista we believe that the DUALphone 3058 will also be very
interesting for business use."
"Introduced in 2004, RTX‘s first DUALphone for Skype became one of the
most popular cordless Skype handsets ever," said Manrique Brenes,
director of Hardware Business Development at Skype. "We are happy to
see the second generation of this USB phone with wideband audio."
DUALphone 3058 product features:
- Cordless Skype phone and ordinary telephone in one - just connect
the DUALphone 3058 base station directly to the USB interface of your PC
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Wideband audio and Superior Skype sound quality
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Hands-free speakerphone
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Colour display on handset
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Supports Microsoft Vista
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Cordless phone using DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) technology
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Internet communications via Skype to other Skype users; SkypeOut
to landline and mobile telephone numbers or SkypeIn from ordinary
telephone numbers
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Ordinary telephony via your ordinary operator - Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
The DUALphone 3058 will be available at www.skype.com/shop and through our distributors from the 1st of April at a recommended reseller price of €89. For more information please visit www.dualphone.net.
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