Using Skype
Since a day or two I’ve been using Skype to call my girl in New York city. It works great once we read the known bugs report. The sound is even clearer than a normal phone (the headset has to do with that I think) and there is no delay whatsoever (there used to be). Brilliant. I was working today and the phone rang - that is, Skype rang on my laptop. A great experience, and since the calls are free nobody feels about about hanging on the phone for a while.
August 20th, 2004 at 5:42 am
Skype is definitely cool. When you get really addicted, you’ll want a handset though. Skype sell these, but what’s annoying is that they still tie you to your computer to receive calls. What they need to do is start selling cordless Skype handsets. You can get USB/RJ11 converters that would allow you to do this (quite hard to get hold of) but I’ve not tried them.
August 20th, 2004 at 7:51 am
How about cordless headsets? Those would be pretty cool. I notices I missed holding the phone though.