Even when you talk flowers about your really fine phone, people would like to know the most important of all, the quality sound on the calls out, because using skype in pcs has been a really big nightmare en sound quality.

Has anyone tried to dial an extention number once connected to a number. I have a GE phone that is similar to the Philips but it won't allow me to dial an extention. For example if I want to check my work voicemail... I can dial the number but when you have to dial the # key and than enter your password it doesn't respond.

Does does anyone know if this philips phone allows you to do this??

This phone is great but it has 1 big problem - when you have an incoming call you can see the number but it does not show you name of who is calling even though the number is in your contacts. I have the latest firmware and Philips confirm this is a problem. This is a real downside.

To answer to bataanmd, I have this phone and yes, you can send dtmf tones while in a call, even when using skypeout. One suggestion to everyone wants to buy this phone is to get better rechargeable AAA batteries. The 750mAh supplied really don't go far. I have found some 900mAh and it definitely improves. If you use the phone a lot, and with skype enabled always you will, with the standard batteries you hardly manage to go through the day.

I have had this phone for 3 months now. However, today it starting showing me a message that says "system is starting up" but the system never starts even after I did reset phone, router, etc, etc, etc.
Can anyone help?

I bought these phones in early March 2008 and after numerous issues with phantom voicemail notifications I decided they were a bad idea.

The Phone would just keep beeping to suggest I had a new voicemail when there was none. This was one of many issues I was experiencing with the phones, I was also getting kicked out of Skype and when trying to access the Menu options would be told they were unavailable.

I had bought these phones so that I could satisfy my communications provider by showing an active device on the end of the line and so that I could use Skype to call home as my main method of communication.

Everytime I would sign back into Skype I would get this phantom voicemail notifiaction and I assumed it was down to Skype as it only happened when I was signed in. If I tried to call anyone through Skype it would kick me off aftert around 20mins.

I eventually took this up with Philips to see if they could help as I was not recieiving or seeing any answers from Skype. They suggested playing with the voicemail settings and turning off certain notifications from Skype. This got me thinking.... when it said I had a voicemail it would always send me to the VM Landline number and so I called Verizon. I asked them to turn off the voicemail box feature for my account, this was free feature and seeing as nobody really called me on the landline it was no major loss.

Since the voicemail communication has stopped from Verizon I have seen no more phantom voicemail notifications and have not been kicked out of Skype!

I thought there may be other Skype/Verizon users that are experiencing the same problems so decided to post it here. Hope it helps someone.

Thanks

Leighton

Have had this phone mow for over 1 year - wonderful.

Only 3 "hickups" I needed to fix

1) Dropped calls very often - until I forced it to use 10M (instead of Auto or 100M) and used a static IP address (foreced my router to give the base a given static IP) - after that I had no problems at all anymore

2) Registering a second handset - you need to press the button on the base station ! Even though this is for security and wonderful solution - it is mentioned only with very small letters in the documentation and drove me nuts for some hours. (Until I decided to read the manual in details)

3) Had trouble with touch tone registration sites and had to upgrade the firmware of the base box after which all worked perfect.

Conclusion: Very nice phone and works when it finally is configured correctly and updated with latest firmware

Hi does any one knows where to find an additional handset ( I already have base) for Philips VOIP8411B ? I have tried everything. Philips discontinue this product.

Hello,

I have this phone and as of today it is not allowing me to make calls. My skype account is active so it's not that. Every call I try to make or feature I try to use comes up as unavailable. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? I have tried logging in and out of skype from my PC to no avail.

Thank you