Z-Connect VoIP phone —Yuck

摘要

With VoIP becoming all the rage and appearing in consumer devices, there's lots of interesting products for us to look at. A consumer-level VoIP telephone that we've had in the queue for a few weeks is the Z-Connect G668 (www.networkworld.com, Doc-Finder: 8837) from Soyo Group. Our first impression was that this is rather ugly The body is conventionally shaped and smooth black plastic, but it and the handset are trimmed with a brown, leather-textured material. Yuck. And the handset also has a pointless silver highlight strip. These details give the telephone a cheesy, 70s look. Leaving aesthetics aside, the G668 is easy to set up if you have a DHCP-enabled network — you just connect it to the network (then plug your PC into the phone — the phone provides a pass-through service), power it up, and it works. During our tests the call quality was good to very good.