Voip Blog
Symbio DECT VoIP Phone By Thomson
Monday, April 14, 2008
The folks at Thomson commissioned the folks at EliumStudio to design a Cordless DECT VoIP Phone and Internet Radio. It is quite an innovative looking handset, and it has some innovative technical features as well.
What's an Internet Radio doing on a telephone handset? Not sure, but they support a list of stations by location or desired musical style.
Why does a telephone have an RSS reader? Not entirely sure about that, either. My mobile phone has an RSS reader, but it also has a full web browser. The feature on the Symbio is called Myinfokiosk. The spec sheet or the brochure don't have a whole lot of information on this feature, but my guess is that it's fairly limited.
The phone gets a good six hours on a charge and communicates between the base and the handset using an HD codec (G.722). This should improve the quality of your VoIP calls substantially, or at least the DECT portion of the call won't make the call sound any worse.
Other features include:
- Phone usable with analog or VoIP service (subject to availability)
- Caller ID (1)
- Hands Free (a.k.a. Speakerphone)
- 200 Name Phonebook
- Last 50 incoming calls
- Multi-line support (1)(2)
- SMS Text Messaging (1)(2)
- Phonebook synchronization (2)
- Myinfokiosk (RSS reader) (2)
- Color screen with auto-orientation
- Built-in Stereo Speakers (3 watt)
- Radio Alarm
- Custom MP3 or WAV Ringtones
- Station name and other info such as artist/song’s name (station-dependent feature)
(1) Operator-dependent feature (2) Not all models support this feature
Pricing and availability on this handset is not available anywhere that I can find. Wish I could get my hands on one to check it out!
