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SMC Skype phone arrived: first impression (video) December 13, 2006

About a week ago I ordered the Skype SMC phone/ La Fonera bundle. Yesterday the phone arrived (unfortunately without the router). As my Linksys doesn't work anymore my FON access point is out of order and I connected it to a WPA secured AP in my office. It worked like a breeze. It's great, time and Skype credit appears automatically in the display and all contacts appear in an ordered list (online first, then phone contacts and last offline contacts - the way you want it to be). Sound quality is great, too, but as far as I can tell after one full charge the battery life is ridicolous: the phone went down after half a day of standby and one 30 min talk. Well let's see, sometimes those batteries need a couple of cycles. Here are my videos:


UPDATE: Second charge cycle lasted for 2 days of stand-by with a couple of short calls.

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1. El Fon Blog » Blog Archive » New Wifi phone makes Skype calls from any FON hotspot! - December 15, 2006

[…] EDIT: Fontastic.org blog has posted two videos of the SMC handset being demonstrated: http://www.fontastic.org/fon/smc-skype-phone-arrived-first-impression-video/  […]