I’ve noticed recently that so many people are beginning to use WiFi VoIP phones in locations that would normally have 2-way radios. This is something that I’d have never thought of, until it made sense to me in a major warehouse-club store.

Like many early adopters of VoIP, back around 1995 I first started experimenting making internet calls using a headset plugged into my desktop computer and using a Windows program I can’t remember the name of. Anyway, dialing the keypad on the screen with my mouse and making the home phone ring was absolutely amazing. Of [...]

You know that cellphones are so ’80s when everyone you know has one. They tell you they pay $40 a month or more, deal with dropped calls, digitized crap sound, oh – and get FREE nights and weekends. Sure – what if you only use your phone on nights and weekends, will your next bill [...]

Here’s another great review from a hands-on user of the WP04 WiFI SIP VoIP phone : Many SIP phone enthusiasts consider the Locktec WP04 WiFi IP SIP phone a major advancement in SIP phone technology. Honestly, this SIP phone makes the rest look like ancient technology. Looks That Matter The phone display, for me, is [...]

If you do a search on Google for WiFI IP SIP phones you’ll find one of two things. Either the posts contain data about phones that might be coming out soon, with a posting date from 2004, or you’ll find posts from people that have downloaded applications for their cell phones that allow them through [...]

Welcome to VoIP Up Close. This is where you will find out everything and anything that involves Voice Over IP or Internet Telephony. Instead of scouring hundreds of websites (most haven’t been updated in YEARS!), we subscribe to literally every VoIP email and update feed from all over the planet. If it involves VoIP, you [...]