Considering the fact, people who love to talk on phone would always remain on same phone. Some of them even hate to use the hands-free accessory, until they move ahead and explore more options to stay connected. Skype is one such soft phone, which has revolutionized the overseas and local calling. But often people complain about the lack of "phone-ness" begin there major concern with Skype and so the journey for a best Skype compatible handheld phone started.

There are cheap and inexpensive USB phones available and advertised to work with the Skype software but one keeps wondering about the kind of quality and experience this cheap little piece would guarantee. There are various other models like a Xact iVo phone (XVP640) which is sleek and looks good, USB based just plug and play. Don't forget to read the instruction to get it started as most of the times the device start to work without you reading the manual.

Most of the times windows XP would detect the device and try to install the device drivers from its internal database and if its fails to find one, it prompts for the vendor CD-ROM to complete the installation. Once the device software is installed (may be after a reboot) their job is to get any Skype call directly to your handset only after you configure Skype to do so. Once configured USB based phone works great and you can dial a number, receive a VoIP call etc as if you are on your landline.

When a call is received, both the computer monitor and the USB phone flickers to let you know a call waiting to be answered. Most of the phones have 2 kinds of lights, a green light shows that the phone is powered and the red light shows the phone is connected to computer. Play with the devise as you would with you mobile phone as the features are almost same. You can get to your Skype address book from the phone itself.

Most of the phones have good audio quality with full duplex flow through out the call as you would find on your landline. Both parties could speak and hear at the same time and echo should be filtered out as much as it can. These types of phone are easy to carry and even fit into your laptop case while you are on the move. Pull the handset out and start talking on your Skype ready VoIP internet phone.

There are more phone models available in the market, which are cordless and price ranging from £40 onwards. The kind of best price was on several cordless models costing around £50 - £60. Plug the base station into your laptop and carry the Skype enabled VoIP phone in your pocket. Some of these were multi user base stations allowing you to connect multiple devices to once. Enjoy your freedom in office or at home or in the garden.

One of the interesting news found recently is about a NetGear Wi-Fi phone which had Skype integrated making you a complete computer free. Enjoy your freedom!