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‘Home Phone’ Stories

Bang & Olufsen have been through a phase of unusually shaped landline phones – the banana-esque BeoCom 2 is a good example – but they’re returning to their slightly more sensible roots with the new BeoCom 5.  The dual-line DECT phone works both as a twin landline handset and as a VoIP device, and magnetically docks either onto its charging plinth or onto a portable speakerphone (that also charges the handset).

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You may recall us talking a bit about the Verizon Hub early this year. The Hub was Verizon’s plan to woo customers back to home phones with a home phone that offered Internet connectivity. What they failed to consider was how dumb an idea the Hub was.

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