Eat your hear out Skype-fans, Apple's iChat software has spawned its very own unique speakerphone for up to four people to chat via iChat.
Taiwanese firm IPEVO's TR-10 Speakerphone for iChat ($79.90) is now available at Apple stores in the USA nationwide. This product does VoIP support for four-way conferencing as both a speakerphone and handset.
Better yet, it will happily record conversations straight into GarageBand, so you can quickly create a podcast of an interview just done, for example.
It's not a bad speakerphone, ofering a voice reception range of up to 1.5 metres along with good echo cancelling technology which helps make for nice and clear sound quality during calls.
We think this is a pretty unique system, so we wanted to let you know about it.
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Is this product really
Is this product really necessary? Hmm maybe apple thinks so.
Necessary? What is? Food and
Necessary? What is? Food and water and shelter, I guess. But this one made it through because I'd not seen anything that does this before.
I love mine!
I went to buy mine when it came out yesterday, and I'm loving it. I'm always at Starbucks writing emails, following up on stuff, conferencing. I had an interview this morning and the girl on the next table couldn't stop talking about her boyfriend coming back late and blahblahblah. So I switched it to handset. Cord a little clunky on top when you do that, but the call quality was better, and the recording was awesome! Editing in Garageband right now... awesome idea!
- Kelly
I love mine!
I went to buy mine when it came out yesterday, and I'm loving it. I'm always at Starbucks writing emails, following up on stuff, conferencing. I had an interview this morning and the girl on the next table couldn't stop talking about her boyfriend coming back late and blahblahblah. So I switched it to handset. Cord a little clunky on top when you do that, but the call quality was better, and the recording was awesome! Editing in Garageband right now... awesome idea!
- Kelly
I have one of these. Actually
I have one of these. Actually it is exactly the same as the Skype version. The only difference is the software you load, it launches iChat intead of Skype. You can load either on the Mac.
It is a nice USB speakerphone at a reasonable price. The Phoenix Dual is better, but costs $199.
The TR-10 is needed for video conferencing if you do not want to wear a headset.