As I went through my volumes of e-mail this morning I noticed one of my e-messages was from Hammacher Schlemmer. Now I can never pronounce this name or spell it without spell checker but I have ordered products from the company before and noticed they carry virtually any product you can think of from gadgets to outdoor accessories.
But digressions aside, when I opened the company’s newsletter I noticed something new. I saw a picture of two telephones near each other but what I didn’t expect was to see the headline: Voice over IP telephone system. The phones are made by Uniden and you get a wired and wireless model for $139. You can add up to nine handsets and the service costs less than $20 per month.
I recall Uniden working with Vonage and some research shows this is the case. I am not sure if this phone supports Vonage as well but I would guess it does.
If I had to say when a technology goes mainstream, I would say it is when the products from this market start showing up in the premium catalogues. Sure, the real techie catalogues have carried VoIP products for over a year but Hammacher Schlemmer is in a different category and although I can't imagine the company selling more phones than Amazon this seems to be a small step for the cataloguer and a huge step for VoIP-kind.
Hammacher Does VoIP
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Hi Rich,
Re: the Uniden voip product, the "unlimited calling plan for under $20 a month" sounds more like Packet8 than Vonage. Packet8 also has a Uniden CPE product available http://packet8.net/about/uniden.asp
Thanks for the feedback. If anyone has one of these phones please chime in.