CES: Is Netgear's wireless Skype phone ready to dethrone your old cordless one?
But Skype's downfall (if you can call it that) has been that it really wasn't a total replacement for your existing phone service since most people have been bound to their PCs in order to actually make Skype calls. That's beginning to change now as a bumper-crop of dedicated Skype (and other VoIP phones) hit the market that can be carried around your office or home (or to some WiFi hotspots) much the same way you'd carry your cordless phone around. Pictured right is NetGear's $200 Skype WiFi phone which works with NetGear's 54 mbps 802.11G router. Company officials here at CES said "G" is required but the specs for the phone on NetGear's Web site suggest otherwise. Here's the video of what I saw at CES:
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