What do you think about an iPhone for your home? Would you actually use? I certainly see the iPhone’s usability but would I get a home version? I think not, but let’s give it a closer look.

The company manufacturing this device is OpenPeak and it has been working on this version for about a year and a half. Are they ready? Not yet! The final version will hit the market sometime in the first quarter of 2009.

The phone is said to have been designed as a communication center for the whole family and third party developers will be able to create applications specially designed for this iPhone. Ok, but why keep investing in landlines when you are mostly talking on your cell phone?

This iPhone Home will be available from Verizon and AT&T but you might find it available with other private resellers too. The price is rumored to be somewhere between $200 to $300. The price is not that bad for a smartphone but it might be too much for a phone you’ll hardly use. Sure OpenPeak says their product will have lots of other features, but I really hate being the one that tells them we have computers at home which are more than able to perform complicated tasks. And VoIP is one of them.

Still skeptical about this phone, but if you do happen to get it, do tell us more about it!

VoIP calling is more and more popular and Intel knows it. Their future PCs will pack motherboards that have a Remote Wake function. That function will let you take phone calls even when your PC is sleeping like a baby.
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So you’re not looking for a cell phone are you? What about a regular, old fashioned phone for your home? What about a modern regular phone? The Iocell Contents Phone is exactly that. But besides regular phone calls it knows some neat tricks.

Inside the Iocell Phone there’s a hard drive which will store music, record conversations and play music in the background of your calls. Everything can be taken to your PC and stored over there if needed. Bad news for the stalker that was calling you all the time. Now you’ll be able to record him while making him listen to the Titanic soundtrack.

Skype is getting more and more popular with their close to free communication solutions. Talking with your friends for free is something Skype has been offering for years. They also happen to offer mobile solutions, skype phone numbers which can be called from anywhere and custom phones.
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Let’s go off the topic for a while for something worthy to be discussed. With people opting for mobile phones nowadays, a lot are getting rid of their old landline connections. Perhaps if people encounter more of something like the Kiss Me Phone, they’d change their minds about ridding themselves of their landlines completely. The Kiss Me landline Phone comes equipped with European and UK cables, and has its own push-button operation at the top lip. Very retro.

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