Skype recently unleashed a couple of devices to get you all VoIPed up without even needing to turn on your PC; the Skype Freetalk Connect Me home phone adapter and the GE Digital Cordless Expandable Telephone with Skype.

Starting with the adapter...

Archos has announced the arrival of its 35 range: the Archos 35 Home Connect - an Android-based web radio, and the Archos 35 Smart Home Phone - an Android DECT phone.

Starting with the radio and, despite the obvious question of "why does an...

You may have read our news post last week regarding the world's first Android-powered home phone - the Binatone iHomePhone.

If you didn't, allow us to refresh your memory. This is a cordless DECT home phone that comes loaded with Android 1.6.

The...

The Binatone iHomePhone has been announced, and its makers are claiming that it is the world's first Android-powered home phone.

Running Android 1.6, the iHomePhone is made up of a DECT digital cordless phone, with Wi-Fi b/g/n on board, a microSD...

Binatone has launched the iDECT C5i and iDECT X5i, two new home phones boasting "glossy midnight black finishes, slimline form and smooth modern edged corners".

The iDECT C5i is a slimline cordless phone with an ergonomically curved handset...

O2 is expanding its telecoms empire a little, adding landlines to the package of services that it offers to its customers. From March, O2 Broadband customers will be able to get a landline package added to their phone bill.

There'll be two...

Philips is offering a new DECT phone for stylish homes with the launch of the ID965.

Offering a "uniquely tapered", ergonomic design convenience, the handset comes with a mount-slash-charger, and a base station.

Boasting a "high...

MagicBox has added an answer machine to its designer Colombo phone.

The Colombo One offers the same styling as the original - inspired by the work of 60s Italian designer Joe Colombo - but also boasts a fully featured digital answer machine....

Possibly one of the most un-ergonomic phone designs we've ever clapped eyes on, Gadget4All is offering the new fire extinguisher phone.

For all you wannabe firemen out there, the novelty landline blower measures in at 187x85x67mm.

Cloud Telecomputers has unveiled some images of a tasty-looking Android-based landline phone, which comes equipped with an 8-inch glass-covered LCD touchscreen display.

The benefits of using Android for landlines are obvious - although it...

Panasonic has launched its KX-TG6481ET landline phone, an addition to its DECT range of cordless home phones that has "rugged" capabilities.

Why would you need a rugged landline phone? If you have an aggressive toddler, perhaps, or if you...

Not only does this charming skull-shaped object make and receive calls but its eyes flash when a call is incoming.

Stomping all over your novelty hamburger phone, this $25 landline effort is just the thing to call your goth buds on.

BT is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of the "curly cord" telephone in UK homes.

The 700-type telephone was launched in May 1959 to "set off the decor of any room and add a discrete note of good taste and luxury...

T-Mobile is planning what's being described as an "aggressive push deep into the home" with a range of Android-based devices, reports the New York Times.

The report, apparently based on "confidential documents obtained from one of the company's...

BT has launched the "Granite" home phone, said to have been "created with fans of minimal and monochrome design in mind, who refuse to comprise on sleek design for all of their home technology".

The handset lies flat in a "sculpted" square...