Communicate! i2000

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000042OLX
• Item model number: 26-829628
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 25, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,087 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #21 in Software > Business & Office > Communication > E-mail > E-mail Clients
  • #41 in Software > Business & Office > Communication > Fax
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Have you noticed people don't talk about the future anymore? Perhaps we've caught up with it--we're practically living in the world of The Jetsons as far as information technology is concerned. Communicate! i2000 helps you step smartly into this futuristic present, with more communication options than Edison could ever have imagined.

Video phoning, Internet paging, and faxing are combined in one easy interface. Add audio and video snippets to e-mail, manage voice mail and fax scheduling remotely, and set up your own unattended bulletin board system (BBS), using regular phone lines or a dedicated Internet connection.

The learning curve is pretty gentle, too; while some of the newer or more advanced features might take some tweaking, you can jump right in and start making calls or faxes right away. Don't worry about translating your contact data from other programs, either--Communicate! i2000 offers plenty of import and linking features so you should be able to access any information from almost any software.

If you want to consolidate your communications software into one inexpensive, comprehensive package, Communicate! i2000 should be your first choice. When you're videoconferencing, reading e-mail, sending faxes, and on the phone with your stockbroker simultaneously, you'll wonder how long it'll take to get your jetpack and food pills. --Rob Lightner

Amazon.com Product Description

Now you can turn any PC into a robust, Y2K-compliant unified messaging, communications center. Complete with Internet video/phone/fax, e-mail, voice, fax, paging, and data, COMMUNICATE! i2000 gives you everything you need to communicate with the world. The easy-to-use, intuitive interface and comprehensive contact manager take the hassle out of organizing voice, fax, pager, and e-mail messages and actually reduce paperwork so you'll have more time to concentrate on business. COMMUNICATE! i2000 pushes communications software one step further, offering advanced video capabilities that let you send video files, perform live video phone conferencing, and even monitor your office or home while you're away. COMMUNICATE! i2000 supports one analog modem line for telephony functions and an optional dedicated Internet connection via a second analog modem, ISDN modem, broadband cable modem, broadband xDSL modem, or even T1/T3/Internet through a proxy server. Users who need to increase the number of lines can purchase an upgrade to allow their COMMUNICATE! i2000 to support up to four modems.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sadly the worse purchase I 'ever' made..., July 16, 2001

By 

R. Williamson "[e-mail]" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Communicate! i2000 (CD-ROM)

I made it a point to come here and write this review. But one star is wrong... it should be 'negative' 5 stars! Perhaps I can spare someone else the nightmare that I endured.

I'm disabled and depend on phone communications to make a living. I wanted the best. After 3 months, 2 modems, at least 100 hours of frustration and a dozen emails to the support department -- this software sits on the shelf collecting dust! It is completely unusable. They assured me that it would provide basic phone functionality with my current modem (Creative Blaster) by email `before I bought it'... but it does not and `after I bought' they're story changed.

Hear's what you're buying: conversations fade out (you think the other person paused but no...), you must adjust the volume between dialing and talking or your ears will bleed (the dialing beep can be heard in the next city), it won't `beep' after the answering machine message (you have to add your own), it doesn't notify you when a message is waiting, if you link it to Outlook it zaps Outlook every time you look up a number, and on occasion it cuts messages off at 3 seconds... and there's more. The over all design is terrible, its hard to use and its completely over engineered.

'After' I bought it they said 'oh, won't work with that modem'. I switched to my 2nd PC which had 'approved modem' on their list... same thing! Which says to me that they would have me go out and purchase another modem and install it for nothing. The next thing they told me was, 'Oh, you must not use your sound card' - well, who needs multimedia anyway. BTW, freeware works fine with my modem and sound card... *freeware*!

Perhaps, if you work down the modem list and get just the right one, devote your entire sound system to Communicate! i2000 and devote the next 3 months of your life to messing with all this... you might be able to phone home! I never even got to try the other features.

Of course I'm beyond the refund period. I'm stuck, they won't refund my money (they got me!). Money truly wasted but it is the `time' I wasted on it that really cost me.

I'd sell it cheap but... I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy.

Yes... Commnicate! I2000's features sound so nice don't they -- unfortunately you need to press `redial' on this one and move on... as quickly as possible!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Compatability Issues, July 6, 2001

By 

Roy Pfleger (Port Jefferson Station, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Communicate! i2000 (CD-ROM)

I have yet to resolve the compatability issues with this software and the modem. Anyone interested in the software should contact the i2000 technical support team for a list of modems that are compatible with the software. Though the software boasts of the feature rich content. (which is why I purchased it for a small business ap out of my home). I will purchase a compatible modem and give it a shot.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Multipurpose Communication Program, July 27, 2003

By 

Deborah Brazo (Cato, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Communicate! i2000 (CD-ROM)

This the most complete professional communications program I have used in my 25 years of computer experience. Your computer becomes a fax/voice mail/video conferencing machine.