Any photos of the table or wall charger?

It is a very boring black rectangle hidden by the hand set.

Not a bad looking phone. I do like the phone part better than the base. I expected it to look a little more stylized though.
However it seems to 'feel' right when handling which is important as well.

Will look good in an office environment but I feel it's design is a little too 'ordinary' for a home situation ( well for me anyways...).
I do prefer the designs that don't show the keypad when not in use ... even the beocom2 can be turned so to show it's wonderful metal back as a piece of art.

Would certainly consider one of these for my office though...

oops double post .. sorry folks

Some time ago there was talk on the forum about the materials used for the phone: back made of alu, front made of glas. This still true? It sounds more like the back is made of the now usual soft touch laquered plastic, but the front looks glossy in the pics... Glas or plastic? If glas the distance to the edge of the housing beside the wheel would be really thin.

Nevertheless I will stick to my 6000s. It may fit the hand well but I don´t like the concave shape of the housing. The big alu wheel looks unbalanced and out of proportion to me too. And the data sheet says the beoline2 is an enormous 52cm wide! What did the hide in there? A complete radio station?

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moxxey wrote:

PhilLondon wrote:

moxxey wrote:

www.bang-olufsen.com/beocom5

I have noticed that some pages are only accessible from some countries... maybe that is the case.

Yeah, but the page isn't available at all, whether you go in to the American version of the site or even though an American proxy. Catalogue/magalogue is available in the States....but you can't get info from the B&O site (and the site is referenced in the catalogue).

It will now doubt be there when the product is officially released. The printed material is obviously, well, printed in advance.

Good news! According to the specs....it can handle internet telephony - ie. Skype and so on. Good move for the office. Very good move. My last quarterly phone bill was £300 and £150 of that was made up of international calls. I was just about to buy a regular Skype phone and I'll now wait for this Beocom 5.

But....does it require a Beoline 2? If so, how much will this be? I bet that doesn't come cheap.

I saw that also but I have a question.  Doesn't a Skype phone have to be connected to a PC?  I have been using Skype on my iPhone which only works with a WiFi connection but at least it works like a regular phone when at home.

linder wrote:

I saw that also but I have a question.  Doesn't a Skype phone have to be connected to a PC?  I have been using Skype on my iPhone which only works with a WiFi connection but at least it works like a regular phone when at home.

There are hardware Skype phones as well, they don't need a computer. There are certainly a lot of "Skype phones" that are nothing more than a mic, an earphone and perhaps a keypad on a single USB connection; they rely on the PC to do all the actual work.

What I find odd is that the brochure doesn't specify at all what kind of Internet telephony is supported. The thing to understand is that VoIP doesn't mean Skype and vice versa - Skype is just one proprietary system for telephone calls over the Internet, all of it controlled by that company. There are also old and tried, open standards for VoIP, like SIP. Then you can select your service provider, or even have several at the same time, or a private VoIP telephone exhange at home. I sincerely hope this phone will include standard SIP support. Why not Skype as well as there are plenty of users now, but personally I think it is a dead end - it will disappear the moment the company goes under or is sold to someone that wants to charge for the traffic.