Where can I read a review of Asuss Skype video phone?
For most users Skype is an application run on your PC with a webcam, micrphone, and speakers or headphones. But if you rely on Skype heavily for everyday communications, or it is a business tool used around the office, then a standalone unit not conncted to any PC may be your preferred option. Alongside handsets that look like standard wireless home phones there is a new option from Asus that combines the best of Skype into a single unit. The Videophone Touch AiGuru SV1T combines a 7-inch touchscreen (800 x 480 resolution) with webcam and voice communication. Effectively it is a complete Skype solution away from your PC screen. Although Asus are aiming this at all users its feature set particularly suits the home user with little experience of using all of Skype’s capabilities through a PC. The interface is icon based and has a large touchscreen keypad for typing. Connection just involves hooking into your broadband (wireless or wired) and logging into Skype. All features such as video
The Asus Videophone Touch (www.skype.com/allfeatures/videophones/) is a Skype WiFi appliance with a 840 x 480-pixel, 7-inch touch screen. It opens a channel to loved ones too worried about H1N1 and outdated FAA computers to board a plane this year. The phone has a built-in 0.3-megapixel, 640 x 480-pixel camera and a microphone. Headphone and microphone jacks, as well as USB and Ethernet jacks, are on the back of the device. It should be easier to teach Grandma – or Nai-Nai, as my girls call her – to use the Videophone Touch than to teach her to use a new application for her PC. You can create Grandma’s Skype account from your end. But you may need to enlist a savvy neighbor to connect the Videophone Touch to her home network. (Wireless networking can be a bit tricky.) Sources: http://www.boston.
