Voip Blog
V-Click: not doin' it for the folks over at Engadget
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
And it's not hard to see why. On the one hand, D-Link's upcoming V-Click WiFi/Voip phone will be able to toggle between using a wireless cell network (for your cell calls), or any available WiFi cloud (for any and all voip internet phone calls). That seems pretty high on the nifty scale, if you ask me.
The problem, I think, isn't so much them taking issue with design weaknesses (notice the plurality of that word) as it is with the part where V-Click looks like Riker got a hold of Picard's brand spanking new dual-mode phone from that last time they pulled into Achrady VII for shore leave and then when no one was looking he stuck it in the Replicator so he could have one of his very own. With a different sticker on the front, of course.
See for yourself. It looks just like a rebadge of France's Neuf Twin, or Taiwan's GW1. Would it have killed D-Link to reprogram the replicator so that battery life lasted longer than 3-5 hours? And whither the 850 MHz band?
Here's a little word problem for the kids watching at home: with an expected sticker price of $600 for Q1 2007, how long will it take the average cell phone user to accrue enough savings before this phone starts making sense?
