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However, you can also call your WhatsApp friends right from the app using only your internet connection (it doesn't count against your phone plan's voice minutes). Meta-owned WhatsApp is a popular texting app with hundreds of millions of users. (A competitor called Rebtel has a similar service.It's unable to call non-users like landline phones. It’s like a calling card, but without the hassle of entering a bunch of numbers on the phone.

Call that number from your home phone, and Skype connects your international call at its rates, rather than the phone company’s. If you give it an international number that you like to call, it will give you a local number back. You can sign up for the To Go service on Skype’s Web site. And of course, calls to Skype contacts are free.īut if you call the same few people overseas over and over again, and they’re not big Skype users, there’s another way of making cheap Skype calls from your home phone, without the use of an adapter or special phone. Their international rates, though, are good. Most plans from phone and cable companies already include unlimited domestic calling, so there isn’t much point to running those over Skype. IT SOUNDS GOOD to be able to choose between the boring old phone company and the jazzy new Internet guerrilla for every call, but how much money will that really save you? The phone shows you which of your Skype contacts are online, and when you dial a number, you can choose whether to route it through Skype or the phone company. It can make and receive regular phone calls, and the buttons and screen make it a lot easier to make Skype calls than it is with the adapter. It looks like any cordless phone, except it has a prominent “Skype” button.

and Canada and 200 minutes of calls to international phones. For another $20, you get a year of calls to the U.S. It costs $70 with 400 minutes of calls thrown in.

The audio improved greatly, to the level of a good cellphone call, when I ditched the adapter for the other recent Skype release, the GE Digital Cordless Expandable phone. One person I called heard her own echo, a common phenomenon on poorly configured Internet phone systems.

On calls to international and domestic phones, there were odd hissing noises in the background and voices were muffled. On the plus side, the phone lets you receive Skype calls at any time, without having your computer on.īut what really sinks the Skype adapter in my esteem is the sound quality. Since home phones don’t have cameras, you won’t be able to do video calls. Because your phone isn’t designed to work with Skype, you can’t access your Skype address book directly on the handset, or see who’s online to take your calls. This clunky setup prevents you from making impromptu Skype calls.