$100 Price Tag for Vonage's WiFi/VoIP Combo Handset

Posted Apr 21st 2005 11:21AM by Michael Sciannamea

Vonage says it has set a $100 price tag for its WiFi VoIP handset, which is scheduled to hit the streets either by late summer or early fall. The company is currently in beta trials with handsets from VTech and UTStarcom.

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1. I wonder how Vonage is going to react when Yahoo! launches their VoIP service using Xten's technology. Xten also powers Vonage's softphone. A report yesterday on Andy Abramson's blog http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2005/04/xten_should_be_.html indicates that Yahoo is already using Xten http://xten.com. Vonage had better get with the softphone/video program if they plan to compete.

Posted at 4:35AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Chuck

2. I wonder how Vonage is going to react when Yahoo! launches their VoIP service using Xten's technology. Xten also powers Vonage's softphone. A report yesterday on Andy Abramson's blog http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2005/04/xten_should_be_.html indicates that Yahoo is already using Xten http://xten.com. Vonage had better get with the softphone/video program if they plan to compete.

Posted at 4:35AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Chuck

3. I think $100 might be a little out of line, especially after seeing Engadget's review of the device recently. I'm a Vonage customer, who loves the death out of it, but this is definitely off base.

Posted at 4:35AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tom

4. Vonage does have a softphone option which makes use of the same XTen (Counterpath) software. Having tried it, I can say that the functionality is good and performance is of a high quality. In addition, there are Vonage configurations of softphones (incl. Xten again) available for other platforms such as the pocketPC, which I have also tried and found to be solid.

Posted at 4:35AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Mike

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