CES 2006: ASUS moves into notebooks, cordless phones, with a little help from Lamborghini

The best news, however, is the fact that it was designed for Skype Internet telephony. Of course, this means the phone will require Skype to be set up on the host computer. The phone itself has an easy navigation menu that allows for browsing your Skype contacts - whether it's easier than Skype itself remains to be seen. In addition, you can play back music via WLAN to your Skype phone, and attach it to any output device using the headphones jack.

While data is transferred over WLAN, the base station uses a USB connection to charge the battery. Unfortunately we were not given specific information on the battery type and standby/operating time.

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