Digital Technology for Digital Living.
September 27, 2004
Engin Voice Box For Sale At Dick Smith.
ARNnet has a story on Dick Smith stocking the Engin Voice Box, a Voice Over IP phone system that has the potential to reduce the cost of phone calls.
From Dick Smith’s web site :
- The Engin Voice Box can be attached to an analog, cordless or dect telephone, allowing you to make and receive phone calls as you normally would. Using Engin, you can start saving money when you make calls to other Engin customers, landlines, mobiles and international destinations
- To be able to use the Engin Voice Box you need a broadband internet connection; a modem or router; an Engin Voice Box and a credit card
- Plans start from as low as $19.95 a month
- 10c local calls untimed anytime
- 10c intercapital calls untimed anytime
- Free calls to Engin customers worldwide
- No call connection fees
- On line real time billing
- Current Engin areas where a Local geographic telephone number are allocated are Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Gosford, Newcastle, and the Gold Coast, excludes Hobart.
It also has the ability to record voicemail, filter calls, caller id and forwarding.
An alternative to the hardware is a software version, they’ve sourced from Xten, that works on Windows (98, ME, 2000, XP) or Mac.
VOIP services are hitting the market thick and fast at the moment, by the end of the year we’ll have several competing services, well before Telstra’s release, which they claim won’t save people money. Though the call costs are less, it still requires that you have a broadband connection, which usually means you need to pay Telstra for a phone line anyway.
The Engin Voice Box is for sale now on Dick Smith’s web site for $AU149.
Gadgetman | | Broadband, Software, VOIP
October 10th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Hi,
I am very interested in ordering the Voice mail Box Engin. But I do not have a credit card. Any help in another direction in recieving one of these would be awesome for I am on the computer practicly 24/7.
Yours Sincerely
Nina Pugh