Skype Handset
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Jul 5 02:40:05 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 21:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 28/06/06, Fred Lackey <fred.lackey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Does anyone have any feedback on a handset or headset that has had
> >> success with Skype on more than just Windows (either Mac or Linux)?
> >>
> >> Here are the two I am trying to decide between...
> >>
> >> NEXOTEK P-600S "Skype Smart Phone"
> >> http://www.nexotek.com/p600s.html
> >> - Claims to work well on Linux, Mac, and Windows
> >>
> >> Simply Phone P1K-1
> >>
> >> http://www.simplyphone.lu/index.php?t=prod_detail&pid=21&language=EN
> >>
> >> http://us.accessories.skype.com/direct/skypeusa/itemdetl.jsp?prod=2853
> >>
> >> I generally travel with two laptops... a Mac PowerBook and a Toshiba
> >> Linux (FC5 / Ubuntu 5 dual boot). I'd like to use a USB handset
> >> interchangeably between the two machines. USR has one that I was
> >> looking at but [of course] it only plays nice with Windows.
> >>
> >> Thanks, in advance.
> >>
> >
> > I was going to stay out of this thread and jsut follow it, but seeing
> > how nobody answered, have you contacted the companies that manufacure
> > the headsets that you're looking at? Even if they don't have
> > information on linux compatbility, the very fact that you write to
> > them will alert them to the fact that they cannot afford to ignore
> > linux users. If you have written to them, what were their responses?
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> > http://ie-only.com
> >
> Logitek makes a neat little headset (dual phones and a boom mic,
> overhead band) that works ok, but the mic boom has too much curve in it
> causing it to stick the mic against your face near the corner of your
> mouth. Obviously that tells the other person how many hours its been
> since you shaved, not a desirable side effect. I tried slowly bending
> it outward, but by the time I'd made it stay where I wanted it, which
> was about an inch from the corner of my mouth, it had started to buckle
> the plastic boom in a couple of places. But its been that way for 2
> weeks now, and appears to be ready to do it for however long it takes to
> destroy the cordage, none of which is very 'heavy duty' on these generic
> headsets. Typical $19 headset, got this one at the local radio shack
> after I'd broken the cord of my previous RCA branded version in my feet
> while getting up from this desk too many times. I liked the RCA better,
> but this one has lasted longer. There is no use of paying an extra 20
> bucks for one of these things just because its got a sign on the package
> saying its "Skype compatible". Skype isn't that fussy.. Nor is ekiga
> or wengophone. I have a hell of a lot more trouble getting a
> confirmation message back from either ekiga or wengophone because
> verizon is apparently filtering mail from the competition. Bastards.
> I'd change providers, but they're the only $%^&*() game in town...
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hardly the only game in town
http://www.asterisk.org
real system administrators would handle their own systems and not rely
on a packager like skype
Craig
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