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

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real system administrators would handle their own systems and not rely
on a packager like skype

Craig




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