At long last a proper desktop phone for Skype that doesn't need any PC to be on in the home or office and it even use a good old fashioned Ethernet too.

Fed up with poor quality Skype calls and an arm that aches when holding a USB handset? We check out Logitech's premium offering for notebook and home PC users.

At last a WiFi VOIP handset that can use all manner of Hotspots, Open or with login credentials. Sadly the one thing we couldn't get to work was Skype!  Some you win some you lose.

Take a high end noise cancelling headset, throw in a Bluetooth dongle and mix with a PC software application and you get a Skype certified package for your PC.

Freedom from cables, headsets, Bluetooth, string n cup and any other annoying method of connecting your PC to a handset. Belkin give us their version of the WiFi Skype phone, but is is as good as the Netgear version?

At last Skype without having to keep the PC switched on and it's wireless too. The brand new Netgear Skype phone uses 802.11 WiFi to keep you connected to your Skype buddies without having to have a PC or server humming away 24/7, cool.

Has convergence gone too far when your mouse doubles up as a Skype handset? Perhaps not? We find out as Lordpercy goes travelling with Sony's VOIP enabled mouse.

How to link the new world of VOIP / Skype with analogue fixed line telephony a problem we didn't know existed until we Actiontec sent us  the VoSky Call centre. We check out its credentials

IPEVO Free-1

I'm free to do what I want any old time..... the soup dragons may not have been prophets but the track may well have been penned all about this Skype USB phone. Compatible with both PC and Mac and with 1st class call quality we are impressed.

Actiontec Chatterbox VOIP

A VOIP gadget for under 20 pounds! The latest Actiontech Skype accessory is a simple yet effective audio extender perfect for those who want to make hands free calls while using a laptop.

Want to use Skype in an airport but don't want to look like Britney Spears in the process, then perhaps the Waitec USB handset has the answer.

VOIP and Skype are the future of telephony, but not if you have to use a nasty headset clamped to your PC. That's where Linksys and their new DECT phone come in.

VOIP is here and the Olympia Dual phone offers DECT hands free access to your normal BT line and broadband telephony.

We've been using SkypeHeadset a simple utility that allows just that, now your Bluetooth headset can work with the magic of Skype.