Month: January 2007

It has been discussed in the Skype Forum thread here that the call quality of Skype standalone wi-fi phones can vary based on the connection quality between the phone and the router (disturbances).

Fitting to this, I found a very interesting question and its answer in the SPH101 FAQs which reads:

“What are the other areas of collaboration?
In addition to the NETGEAR Skype Wifi phone, NETGEAR and Skype also announced that the NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless Router (WPN824) with Smart MIMO technology, a 2006 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award honoree and the industry’s #1 selling MIMO-G product, will be equipped to optimize Skype. Adapting to changing wireless conditions is unique to NETGEAR’s RangeMax technology, and RangeMax routers dynamically avoid interference from neighboring wireless networks and eliminate dead spots to maintain the most reliable, high-performance, long-range network connections to each client, making them ideal for supporting applications such as Skype. Skype integration with NETGEAR’s RangeMax wireless router will further extend the companies’ leadership in innovative networking devices.”“

Interestingly, I own the WPN824 RangeMax, because my old D-Link router died on me when I tried to activate WLAN for the SPH101 SPH101.

This is very interesting! 🙂
I had a look at its changelog, yet this has not been implemented in its firmware, it seems!

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RTX released today the promised suite update for the old Dualphone.
Important: click on the flags to download the correct firmware/suite (USA/non-USA)!.

According to the changelog, the following changes has been made:

Bugfixes:

-Skype conference
-Various problems with Skype 3.0
-Send voicemail problems with Skype 3.0

Added:

-Support for Windows Vista!

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Senneheiser was Skyping me the other day and told me that – thanks to the info supplied by RTX, they found out that all their MB (Mobile Business) models made for MOTOROLA should work on the old RTX Dualphone!

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After the recent problems and return, SkypeJournal is completely back up now and with a new layout on a new webspace. Unfortunately also Bill Cambell left them because of internal problems. Which is so sad, since his posts were the best 🙂 (Yes, I have read a couple =) ).

SkypeJournal itself tells other reasons:

It’s been a while and lots has happened over the past five weeks. When I left for a week’s vacation on the WiFi-depleted island of Cozumel immediately after US Thanksgiving I did not expect to be off the air so long. However, our previous hosting provider (whose identity is unknown to me) ran out of the resources required to scale up a growing Moveable Type weblog. It got to a point where we could not even post new entries.

Well, maybe the truth lies somewhere in the midde! 😉

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Without comment! 🙂

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Exactly as I predicted earlier, the market is getting ran over with bunches of Skype wi-fi phones. Skype’s wi-fi mobile program turns out to be very successful. The new Cisco iPhone will be the 4th Skype wi-fi phone.

And they all look 100% equal! Not only this, also the software used seems to be equal and they all seem to turn out Skype certificated. (Which I think probably is because they all use the same GUI?).

Maybe since Apple uses the ‘i’ very often, this fact will help Cisco to promote their phone even better!

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There has been an update for the SPH101 which obviously, for unknown reasons, has been removed again from their servers.

according to Skype Forum thread the firmware update that has been made available for a short period of time was 1.0.46.1 which interestingly didn’t seem to fix any bugs.

(According to their homepage the latest official firmware is 1.0.35.31.

Here is what I experience:

“When I try the one on the resource cd it says “the updates are not available at this time,. please try again later”

no firewall or anythinb that could block it
and when I try the one from the homepage it just finds the one I already have.”

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The amount of phishing emails I receive has dramatically increased!
I have reported yet tons of phishes to PhishTank.

The above screenshot shows all I have received and reported yet 🙂 (Including my little accident).

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