Philips VOIP1511B/37 Skype Travel Phone

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001617OKQ
• Item model number: VOIP1511B/37
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 15, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Philips VOIP1511B/37 Skype Travel Phone makes it easy to make VoIP calls away from home. Use this phone wherever you are to call any other Skype users for free. Using the phone is as easy as simply plugging the phone into a USB port on your desktop or laptop computer. Windows and Mac compatible, this phone comes with a full key pad, an LCD screen for viewing contacts, call status, Skype voicemail alerts, and more.

Product Description

Philips VOIP1511B Skype travel phone makes it easy to make VOIP calls away from home. Use this phone wherever you are to call any other Skype users for free. The phone is compatible with PCs. It features sound clarity providing face-to-face conversation quality with the convenience of a classic phone. Using the phone is easy by simply plugging the phone into a USB port on a PC. The phone comes with a full key pad allowing you to dial calls from phone. Also featured, a LCD screen for viewing contacts, call status and Skype voicemail alert. You can use the phone hands free via PC speakers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unreliable, poor sound, December 12, 2008

By	Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (Northfield, VT USA) - See all my reviews

This VOIP travel phone is not reliable. It will sometimes work fine, other times the software will crash. The sound is also poor.

I have four setups: a standard mic headset; a studio setup for radio interviews (mixer input/output connected to the computer); a standard Microsoft webcam; the Philips travel phone.

All work perfectly except the Philips phone, which can lock up, stop sending/receiving sound, or simply see its software crash. The phone's response time is slow (that is, pulling up the menu). I have returned to using the mic/headset for now.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not excellent usb phone, December 12, 2008

By	D. Houston "Legal Eagle" (Louisville, KY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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For years I have been using Skype with the VTP1000 phones offered at www.pcphoneline.com But I needed another usb phone in a hurry as a friend is going to Mexico next week and so I got this Phillips Travel Phone. I give it 4 stars. The sound quality is good but the volume does not go as high as my other skype phones. This has not caused us to have to repeat anything when talking, but it irritates me. Another thing that bothers me about this Phillips phone is there is no dial tone to it, unlike my other Skype phones. I am just used to that dial tone. The final thing is that when I make multiple international calls in a row but to different countries, I have to manually reset Skype on my laptop to the new country. My other phones do this automatically. For example, if I make a call to England, hang up and then call Mexico (country code 52), my other phones automatically sense from the 52 that the call is going to Mexico. No further action is needed on my part. But with this Phillips phone I have to get on the computer and reset the country from England to Mexico - as otherwise a number starting with 52 is not recognized by the phone. Not a big inconvenience, but an inconvenience nevertheless. I give 4 stars instead of 3 because this Phillips phone cost only half what my other phones cost. All things considered this Phillips phone is a good value at $30 or less.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So far so good, July 11, 2008

By	ES (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

Only had it for a day. Bought it to replace an IPEVO Free-1. Use it for work, international business ocnsultant. Skype's my office phone, so it rings wherever I am. Been using the Philips dual line VOIP phones at home for six months (love them, work great). Now pay $12 per month to Verizon to keep home number (so I dont have to give out my mobile number to people). So far, this Philips product matches the quality of the others I have. By the way, from the Philips website, this is the "new" version of their USB phones (there are older versions on Amazon as well).