Announced in December of last year, the GXV-3175 is Grandstream's latest entry into the multi-media phone arena. Reading the companies press release I thought the phone to be, in principle, a very ambitious undertaking. The GXV-3175 is a kind of…
Earlier today Skype announced the pending launch of a beta program for an SDK called SkypeKit. SkypeKit is intended to allow hardware developers to embed Skype client functionality into their devices.
SkypeKit seems to be a logical next step after having recently partnered with LG, Samsung and Panasonic to build embedded Skype clients for their newest HDTVs. I mentioned this previously.
There’s a bunch of coverage of the SkypeKit launch available at various places online. Engadget has their say and some nice pics of the Grandstream GXV-3140 Media Phone running Skype. Also a Litl webbook that looks like it’s running Skype with video.
Chris Heinrich over at VoIP Supply's VoIP Insider blog has a nice little post about selecting headsets for IP phones. They've faced the common problem of not knowing what type of connection each phone provides, making it difficult to know…