Electronics : Skytone USB Speakerphone with LCD By Radian Works Skype Or Other Serv |
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Rating:  - * Not for professional use ... just tried the skytone and he polycom communicator side by side. (spoiler: the polycom is MUCH better). the only thing that works kind of ok is when the skytone is used with skype. even then most buttons on the phone don't work right (and the manual does not even explain what most are actually for, like SEND). vol+ and vol-? no effect! the sound quality is 3 stars out of 5. what bothered me the most is that the big green speakerphone button does not switch the speakerphone on in any other application other than skype. so even though the device gets a brownie point for functioning as a sound card with those pc's that dont have one, you can hear system sounds/audio only through the handset... go figure... in summary, its only $40 bucks, but it does not really work as good as it should. if you only plan to use it with skype you might be satisfied. Rating:  - * The speakerphone is worthless ... There are much, much better speakerphones for Skype. This phone was very light, and the inconvenient part of it was, it kept moving around the desk. The LCD screen is small and not very well lit up, which meant that it was very hard to read. In terms of the look and feel, it's not so bad, and it has the familiar shape of a regular phone. In terms of usability and quality of the speakerphone, I heard some muffled voices when testing with someone in another room, and static. Another con: there was no recording option. If you're going to speak with it for customer service calls, business calls, or just for any important call, I'd say, get one, for the same price, that has a recording function. This doesn't have it, and it comes pretty handy. Rating: - * it works, but it is buggy ... -you can call using a handset or speakerphone on a phone-like USB-Soundcard device -The numbers pad works fine -The ringer works fine -Some buttons doesn't work as expected -The software that comes with the CD (because you need a software) is outdated and doesn't work. You need to download it: look for SkyTone in google. -The software is a resident program in windows that displays an icon in your taskbar -The software does not always start properly (on my machine). You have to kill it and restart it. When it doesn't work well, your PC routes the audio wrong. It can be to your speakers, the handset, the speakerphone or handset+speakerphone at the same time -___- -It also has a SHORT handset cable. Whenever I call, I pull the whole phone. Rating: - * DON'T buy for the Speakerphone ... I recently switched everyone in my office to Skype for phone lines. We needed a good speakerphone for conference calls. In the past I have used Polycom Skype speakerphones, with good luck, but my new laptop seems to have a dead microphone port. Result? Had to switch to a USB speakerphone. This seemed like a good deal, good price, so away my One-Click went. The speakerphone is terrible. Good volume, but the callers cannot hear you unless you move directly over the phone. The vaunted Skype integration via software is a pain: non-intuitive, and requires working the phone and the PC at the same time. Finally, if you want to use a headset AND this phone, forget it: while you can reconfigure the software to stop sending calls to the phone, it still insists on ringing the phone and lagging hangups. I'm heading to return this one. Rating: - * can't seem to get calls IN??? ... Phone seems ok, but a bit difficult to figure out how to enable it for use. You don't just pick it up and dial! I just got it, but can't seem to figure out how to pick up a call, without hanging up on it. Also, as others have stated........ it seems like it should be able to read the skype contact list and transfer it enabled to dial capacity. but even though the skype contact list says "+" and "1" before each number, the phone will not register it to dial it that way. Therefor you have the number in the directory on your computer- but you have to enter the codes and the # manually for calls out using the phone. You can't even hit "call" on the computer.......... the call won't go through. you can only use the list to access what the number is. Not too satisfied with this product yet. |
