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Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000COIRRM
• Item model number: FREE.1
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 1, 2005

Product Description

Product Description

As one of the first plug-in handsets designed exclusively for Skype, the IPEVO FREE.1 has earned a reputation for its seamless integration with the world's most popular VoIP software in an easy-to-use device.The functions and buttons on the FREE.1 are tailor-made for the Skype experience, which takes a lot of the guesswork out of placing calls via a computer. A "s" key activates the Skype window on your desktop, a toggle "buddy jog" to let you effortlessly scroll through your contact list. Or simply press the "+" key to initiate a SkypeOut call, and use the number pad to dial out just like a regular telephone.Engineered and optimized for Skype, FREE.1 delivers exceptionally clear call quality with 16K sampling rate for Skype-to-Skype calls, and 8K sampling rate for calls to landlines. The unique "hollow" mouthpiece design minimizes the annoying "echo" effect.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plays well with Macintosh, January 21, 2006

By	Robert - See all my reviews

We bought two of the Ipevo VP170 USB phones because we had read that they work well with the Mac. No Mac driver comes with the phones and no instructions for use with Mac but when you go to the Ipevo website you'll find a downloadable OS X driver. We are surprized and pleased at how well the phone works. Every feature (and there are many) seems to be supported by the Mac version of Skype. Once installed, the phone appears in the Skype preferences pane and in OS X system preferences, sound department. Thanks to Ipevo for the excellent implementation for OS X! Previously I used a Logitech 250 headset but the sound quality on the Ipevo is as good or better and it's much more convenient to use.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mac Users Rejoice, December 30, 2005

By	Henry (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

The Mac driver is only a Beta from their online web site, but works great and, so far, is quite stable. I use a Mac power book G4 with OS 10.4.3 with nil problems. Great sound.The Amazon description is accurate. Recommended.
UPDATE 03 Feb 2006 Mac 1.02 driver now out and works well with OS 10.4.4.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Phone, but could use a better Mac driver, May 17, 2006

By	Ash H. Duncan - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I received my IPEVO phone about a week ago, and have been very favorably impressed. Previously when I used other USB phones or my internal laptop speaker and microphone, I was constantly receiving complaints regarding the poor quality sound.

With this product, people are amazed that I'm using my "computer phone." I've been told that the sound quality is better than the regular telephone line connection.

The phone itself works well with Skype on a Macintosh computer, but I was a little disappointed in the "driver," which is available for download from the manufacturer's website. Rather than an invisible piece of coding which instructs the operating system on how to use the phone, the "driver" is actually an application that must be running whenever you use Skype. I've seen the application already crash a couple of times (during non-use), and feel that an actual driver would be more stable and less of a cause of desktop clutter.

All in all, I recommend this product as the best Skype phone I've seen that's Mac-compatible. 5 stars for the phone itself, but only 3 for the application required to use it, averages out to the four star rating above.