Linksys, a division of Cisco, announced yesterday that they are now offering several VoIP phones. Here is a list with links to their new products.

• iPhone Cordless Internet Telephony Kit - CIT200 - Estimated Street Price: $79.99.

• iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit - CIT300 - Estimated Street Price: $99.99
• iPhone Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice - CIT310 - Estimated Street Price: $99.99
• New!! iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit for Skype - CIT400 - Estimated Street Price: $179.99
  
  
• iPhone Wireless-G IP Phone - WIP300 - Estimated Street Price: $219.99
• New!! iPhone Wireless-G Phone for Skype - WIP320 - Estimated Street Price: $199.99.
• iPhone Wireless-G IP Phone - WIP330 - Estimated Street Price: $369.99

The CIT400 or WIP320 look like the best of the bunch because they don’t require computers to operate.

My computer spins down the hard drives after 3 hours and so this means that I couldn’t receive phone calls on some of these. Also what about when I am playing a video game or burning a DVD. I want to be able to receive calls but also I don’t want to either buy dedicated computer to receiving/make calls.  The power consumption doesn’t make sense cost wise.

The ones that require a computer could screw up something if your in the middle of a video game or burning a DVD. Some video games take up a lot of RAM and CPU and if I received a call the game could crash or slow down when I don’t want it too. Burning DVDs takes up a lot of CPU and I/O to the hard drives and receiving a call could cause the burning process to fail which would ruin the DVD disc.