To operate your Simplyphone Internet phone, you have to download and install the Skype software and the Simplyphone driver.
Download the Skype software and the Simplyphone driver
- Download the latest version of the Skype software at www.skype.com.
(The minimum version of 1.0.0.106 or later is required) - Download the latest version of the CallMe driver for your operating system here.
As easy as 1-2-3:
Install Skype - Connect your phone - Install phone driver
- Start the Skype software and follow the instructions on the screen. Once you're finished, a new icon will appear in the system tray on your desktop:
: Skype software is successfully installed and running
: Skype software successfully installed but not connected. Please check your internet connection. - Connect the USB cable of your simplyphone to a free USB port on your computer
If you see the the text "VOIP - Phone" in the phone's display, your simplyphone is correctly connected. - Open the zip file you downloaded with the CallMe driver and run the .exe file to install the driver.
- The following screen will appear during the installation of CallMe
Select "Allow this program to use Skype" and click OK.
Upon completion a new icon will appear in the system tray on your desktop:
: simplyphone and Skype are successfully connected
: Please run Skype first
: Incorrectly connected, please reconnect your simplyphone to the computer Connect your Simplyphone to the computer's sound device
- Go to Start in the taskbar
- Go to Settings (only in Windows 2000)
- Go to Control Panel
- Open Sounds & Audio Devices (Sounds & Multimedia in Windows 2000)
- Click on the Audio tab
- In Sound Playback, select [USB Audio Device] from the list
- In Sound Recording, select [USB Audio Device] from the list
- Press OK to save your changes and close the Control Panel
How to use your Simplyphone
- With the buttons “IN” and “OUT”, you can jump between the Skype menus, “Start”, “Call list”, “Dial” and “Contacts”
- With the arrows up and down, you can select your contacts inside the menus “Call list” and “Contacts”
- With the button “Green Telephone”, you can CALL. This button also activates the Skype program on your computer screen automatically
- With the button “Red Telephone”, you HANG UP/stop the call. If you push this button twice, Skype will disappear from your computer screen and be found as an icon in the taskbar
- With the button “C”, you can erase the number you put in manually for SkypeOut calls
- With the buttons “0-9” you enter/dial SkypeOut numbers or pre-assigned numbers – so called Speed-Dial
Make calls using Speed-Dial
- Add a Skype name to your contact list, e.g. “www.simplyphone.com”.
- Mark the name/contact by pressing the left button on your mouse.
- Press the right button on your mouse and go to “Assign Speed-Dial”.
- Assign a number for your contact, e.g. “1” and press OK.
- Press “1” and the “Green Telephone” button to make the call
Make SkypeOut calls to an ordinary fixed line or mobile phone
- Please note that SkypeOut calls require the purchase of SkypeOut credits!!!
- Dial "00" + the "country number" + the “phone number”, then press the "Green Telephone" button to make the call. Example: 00352268468, then press the "Green Telephone" button
Adjust options (volume and ring style / tone)
- Click on the icon in the taskbar with the right button of your mouse, select “Configure” in order to adjust the volume and the ring style/tone.
