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VERNON HILLS, ILL. - ArialPhone announced May availability of its $399suggested-retail ArialPhone, a SOHOoriented product whose cordless earset lets users voice-dial phone numbers stored in a connected PC's contact list.
Availability through the company's website will be followed in July by sales through select retail outlets. ArialPhone is initially targeting office superstores and SOHO distributors.
"I think ArialPhone represents a completely new category," said CEO Jim Alland. "You have wireless headsets and earsets, you have PC-based telephony from companies such as Net2Phone, and you have voice-command services from companies such as Webley, but only ArialPhone combines all three."
Here's how it works:
A 900MHz digital spread-spectrum cordless earset communicates to a cordless base station, which plugs into a PC's USB port and into a phone jack. Once the PC is on and running the supplied ArialPhone software, consumers can use the headset to make calls...