"She's the one that has told me no," Payne said, when a supervisor on speakerphone asked why he was threatening to arrest Wubbels.
No camera, no Bluetooth, no media player, but it does rock a speakerphone.
For $170 for the 2440 -- or $200 for the 2455, which has a three-mailbox answering function -- you get a compact, unassuming base station with no visible antenna; each unit has a speakerphone, a dialing pad and a cradle for the single cordless handset that comes with it.
The backside of the device features a speakerphone and 1.3-megapixel camera (no flash) that's capable of recording and playing MPEG4, H.263, and WMV video formats.
No calculator, games, text messaging, Internet, headset jack, speakerphone or on-screen status icons — not even a carrier logo.
One of the movie's most touching scenes shows the team's reaction when Corradini tells them, over a speakerphone in the kitchen, the devastating news that the I.O.C. had said no to women competing in ski jump at the Vancouver Olympics.
There is no Bluetooth capability, rechargeable battery, alarm clock, AM/FM radio or speakerphone.
There's simply no comparison between doing a virtual world meeting and a speakerphone.
