The Chronicles of Stuffed Guys

I can now talk via Skype and SkypeOut with an (extra)ordinary cordless DECT phone!

Here are my toys:

1. Gigaset SL560 — a very nice DECT phone from Siemens with Bluetooth.
2. Gigaset M34 USB — a special dongle again from Siemens which plugs in the USB port and also connects to the Gigaset’s DECT base station.
3. An old-and-not-so-sexy-anymore Bluetooth headset from Motorola.

Here is how it works.

I can see M34 dongle as another handset in the internal menu of the base station (accessible from any handset connected to it). I connect to M34 and I see its own menu, where one of the options is “Skype”. I select Skype — and all of my contacts from Skype are displayed. I can choose any of the contacts, press the “call” button on the handset and a Skype call is done on the PC. After the contact answers the phone I can hear her and speak to her using my handset. A miracle!

But that’s not all. Thanks to the wonderful bluetooth capabilities of SL560 I can connect a bluetooth headset to it and then communicate with my Skype contacts using the headset. Don’t forget that it connects to the handset, not to the computer. So I can carry the handset with me, go away from the base station for up to 300 meters and still talk via Skype via DECT phone via Bluetooth headset.