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Many thanks for your latest on VOIP. I already had the BT101 and can affirm that it’s a good piece of kit. However I was also looking for a cheap USB phone and I am delighted to passs onto your readers how they can 'get one over on the bigger corporations'.
The Tesco Internet Phone E337 Handset at £14.97 is of course the US Robotics 9600A which many are selling at over £20. The neat trick is however that this can be both a standard VOIP phone which will function with X-Lite & SIP but also a feature phone with Skype. If you download the USRoboticsUSBPhone3.0.0.24.exe file from the USR website, you will get full Skype functionality.
One phone, cheap, two uses - so how do you tell the difference. If the US Robotics program is running the display says Skype., if not it says VoIP PHONE. By the way - don't install the Tesco software.
Ian Murray
It gets better, Today (31/08/06) I saw this this phone on offer at Tesco for £9.99
Bargain!
Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2006 10:23 PM
But be warned - don't try and get support from USR for the Tesco phone, they have no obligation to provide any. You're on your own if you want to try this.
Posted by Kelvyn Taylor | September 1, 2006 11:54 AM
Also!
Don't be silly enough to buy a Tesco internet phone, then call us (the Tesco internet phone technical helpline) and say it doesn't work on anything like Skype. It's not like we are going to help... as much as I'd like to :P
I just tell the customer that it is a standard model of USB phone and it would not be unlikely for it to work with other services, but don't call us about it!
Posted by Steven Maddox | September 5, 2006 9:43 AM
Your article states not to install the disc, why?
Will the phone still work without it surely not.
If however this is the case could you supply information on how to use the phone without the install.
Posted by JURY. Chris | December 20, 2007 9:03 AM