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| Belkin Wi-Fi Phone for Skype with Boingo Hot Spot Manager ( F1PP000GN-SK ) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Belkin
Category: CE
List Price: $179.99
Buy New: $149.99
You Save: $30.00 (17%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 8.3 x 2.7
nv:Communications Type: VoIP Handset
Warranty: 1 year
MPN: F1PP000GN-SK
Model: F1PP000GN-SK
UPC: 722868599976
EAN: 0722868599976
ASIN: B000GTSEHQ
Release Date: November 20, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Cool August 3, 2008
I recieved my Belkin Wi-Fi phone about a week ago and will be dropping my home phone service at the end of the month. However, I will be keeping my cell phone pay as you go plan. This is because I can not get a Canadian number from skype. So I have a Michigan number which is local to my sister. When I make calls from Skype it looks like I am calling from my cell phone. There is a slight delay in using the phone but it is easy to anticipate and conversations go smoothly. On rare occasions I have gotten a bad connection, solved by hanging up and calling back. The phone has no bells and whisltes. No camera, surfing the net etc. It is a basic phone, which is fine by me. It is easy and straight forward to use. Set up is easy. The screen attracts dust, dirt and greese like mad but not a problem once I put a LCD screen protector on. 3 for 10 loonies at best buy. I have had no problem using it around town. It connects at McDonalds, Starbucks, all the hotels I have stopped at and when driving around town I can usually find an unsecured network. Setting it up at home was as easy as typing in my WEP passkey. It must be recharged everyday. Enough said. I am thinking about getting a usb charger for the car. I have seen them at Best Buy. This phone is going to save me $720/year. How can anyone agrue with that. I love this phone and when Skype starts providing Canadian local numbers I will drop the cell phone as well.
 Pros and cons July 24, 2008
Battery lasts one day, two at most (with low use).
Network keeps on disconecting even when I'm 4 ft from my linksys router.
Lacks from text messaging, ringtones or any utility software.
The rest is ok
Contact names ONLY in latin July 23, 2008
If your contact list contains names in Unicode (like Greek, Russian, etc) normal Skype would show them flawlessly, but Belkin just gives you the empty squares... Very annoying...
Belkin wifi skype phone July 15, 2008
Works as advertised. With a one year skypeout for about $29 I get US and Canada for a year. Sent one to my daughter who lives in Texas. She has skype in and out for less than $70 a year and no other phone service. I've accessed wifi from Futureshop as well as various locations around town. It works and is easy to use. I'd almost think it was an Apple product.
 Just not ready for prime time!!! July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Belkin Wi-Fi Phone for Skype with Boingo Hot Spot Manager ( F1PP000GN-SK )
I was pretty excited to see such a product, but should have known that it wasn't going to perform well. I manage a corporate wireless network and am well aware that wireless technology in general is still in its infancy and is ridden with problems. I also know that most companies release products too early in their quest to beat the competition to market. I guess getting there first is better then getting there late and having a solid product. Hopefully this will change someday!
Anyway...my thoughts above fully state my view on this product. Specifically my issues were with constant wireless disconnects (which obviously hangs up calls), the phone kept losing my settings (such as the saved wireless network information, Skype sign-in information, etc), it hung completely a few times to the point that I had to remove the battery to get it running again, echos on the call, complete distortion on the voice to the point that I had to call back and ever time you turn off the phone, it deletes the history of calls.
I worked with Belkin tech support for over a week and used the phone on multiple wireless networks and experienced the same problems on each of networks.
Again...it just feels like I paid to BETA test their product!
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