Skype for iphone 4 review7/6/2023 ![]() The chip incorporates a National 16 bit CompactRISC CR16C Microprocessor, DSP, and four 32 kbit/sec ADPCM transcoders among other features. The chip at lower left in Figure 4 is an SC14438, which I’m guessing is a variant of the National Semiconductor SC14428 Baseband Processor. I suspect it may be the main processor that runs the Skype client.įigure 3: SPH200D base station board 1 (click image to enlarge)įigure 4 shows the other board that has the radio (under the shield at the upper left, which I also didn’t remove) and PSTN line interface. I didn’t remove the metal shield on this board and the FCC ID pictures don’t show this board at all, so I don’t know what’s under there. The board in Figure 3 holds the LAN interface. Opening up the base station, I found two boards cabled together. Both the Netgear and Philips phones are made by Ascalade and, I suspect, so are at least some of GE / Thomson’s. The 200D (and I suspect, other similar devices in the current crop) are manufactured by Ascalade Communications, a Canadian cordless phone OEM / ODM that is reponsible for many of the phones that you know by Ascalade’s customers’ names. There is no indentation to help guide your ear into place and, while free of sharp edges, the phone is blocky and isn’t that comfortable to hold for long conversations.įigure 2: SPH200D handset controls (click image to enlarge) The handset won’t win any design awards for either ergonomics or looks. Note that there is no dedicated volume control on the side of the handset you adjust volume during a call with the 4-way navigation pad. ![]() Figure 2 shows the handset controls, which are familiar enough, but it doesn’t show the 2.5mm jack on the left side, which the user guide says handles a headset. But either the Skype or landline indicators will illuminate when in use and the handset shows a little antenna icon when it’s in touch with the base station.įigure 1: SPH200D base station features (click image to enlarge)Īs for the handset, you insert the two standard AAA-sized 1.2V 750 mAH NiMH rechargeable batteries, plug the charging base and power wall-wart together and place the handset into the base to charge. Note that there is no indicator light to let you know that the base is powered and ready. You essentially insert power, network and phone line plugs into the appropriate sockets and you’re done. Figure 1 needs little explanation and neither does installing the base station. The base station shown in the product shot above and in Figure 1 below is about the size of a dual CD box, using Netgear’s white and silver plastic enclosure common to its consumer product line. The latest crop of dual-mode Skype phones represented by the 200D, CIT400 and the Philips VoIP841 finally don’t require a PC of any sort and instead have the Skype client running in their own processor. But the weakness of them all (with the exception of the Linksys CIT400 "iPhone" announced in December) is that they all had to be connected to a Windows PC running the Skype client in order to make and receive phone calls. your local phone company) phones to hit the market since the original RTX / Olympia DualPhone. There have been many Skype / PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network, i.e. I was able to get a pre-announcement copy and put it right to use both before and after the show. Netgear introduced its latest Skype-enabled phone, the SPH200D, just over a week ago at the Consumer Electronics Show. ![]() NETGEAR Cordless Phone with Skype (SPH200D)ġ.9 GHz DECT cordless phone with built-in Skype client ![]()
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