A Look at Vonage’s USB V-Phone
Vonage’s V-Phone is a curious device. You plug a headset microphone into the bullet-shaped memory stick. You then plug that memory stick into any Windows personal computer that is connected to the Internet and use an on-screen soft phone and your mouse to take and make calls to any phone number around the globe.
It’s that simple, and a great way for frequent travelers to make relatively cheap calls without the fuss of carrying around cellular modems and the like.
On a recent trip to Japan and South Korea, the bright orange V-Phone worked moderately well. Calls sounded fine in the earbud headphones that came with the memory stick, though people on the other end complained my voice sounded far away until I placed the microphone on the wire directly in front of my mouth. (more…)