Skype™ allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via innovative peer-to-peer software. Skype is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide, since its launch in August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 50 million times and attracts more than 20 million registered users. Except headsets, these huge amount Skype users need easy-to-use handheld products to facilitate their usage of Skype.

PChome Online introduced a co-branded Skype application to Taiwan in July, 2004 and attracts a huge number of Skype users (1M by the end of 2004) and keeps growing fast. Taking advantage of PChome’s Skype users experience and Taiwan's state-of-art IT/PC technique with low cost manufacturing, PChome can design and offer Skype users with easy-to-use and affordable Skype compatible products which fully meet users needs.

PChome Touch-1 is the first product and launches with Skype certifcation. It’s a corded USB phone which can be easily connected to a computer via a USB interface. With the Skype API, the phone allows the Skype user to control Skype with function buttons and the keypad. The user can hear the ringtone through the USB phone and receive the call, as well as make SkypeOut calls from the numerical keypad. Other functions include microphone mute, quick dial, and backlight LED for indication of the status.

PChome is a Skype’s communication device marketing and licensing partner ( http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/pchome-products.html ). PChome Online is teaming up with Skype to develop a wide range of Skype devices like cordless USB phone, speaker phone, WiFi phone,..etc, in order to serve Skype users in the best possible way.