A scathing review at BoingBoing:

"Our buddies at Boing Boing Gadgets have had a hard look at the MagicJack Internet telephony thingamabob and discovered that it is a festering pustule of crappy terms of service, spyware, and lies:

In short, it not only has one agree to ads with its paid-for system, but claims that the ads are necessary for it to work. It will also snoop on your calls to target ads more accurately, and has you sign away your legal right to take it to court if it defrauds or otherwise harms you. Delightful.
Neither the EULA itself, nor any other privacy or legal information, can be easily found at its homepage. It's not even provided at the point of sale, where one enters credit card info, email and street addresses as such, so as to gain access to the service and have your MagicJack dongle delivered. I found the EULA's URL through Google.

It gets sexier. When you access MajicJack's instant web help page, a bizarre series of "compatibility tests" take place first, reporting lies like "Your MagicJack is functioning properly" even if you don't have one installed.

Even the "look how many people came for a free trial" counter on the homepage is a fake, a javascript applet that increments itself automatically..."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/magicjack-netphone-s.html

I've had mine for about two months now and I love it. I was able to change my cell phone plan to a less expensive one and save money, I had several problems with sound quality at first but was able to resolve this with the quickfix or just disconnect it from your pc or disconnect your modem for about 5 mintues and your on your way. With my cordless phone I still get some interference due in part to several wireless signals throughout, I changed it to a str* wired landline and that solved that problem, I assume a 5ghz cordless would work better under those circumstances. I'm telling all my friends about it and how I'm saving at least $80.00 per month, and you can take it with u.

I was ripped by VONAGE; supposedly a two month free trial. Cost me around $100.00 in the end. MAGIC JACK was my next choice. IT WORKS. $19.95 PER YEAR!
Requires high speed internet but dont we all have that anyhow?
I hope this brings the huge monopolies to their actual knees!
My phone bills have errors almost every month, in favor of the big bells, and I challenge them and usually get my credit. I LOVE MAGIC JACK!!!
HELP KEEP MAGIC HEALTHY AND PROFITABLE BY BUING ONE NOW!!

Have had it for 1 mo. My brother for three mo. and is working great. Cant believe how inexpensive it is.

Have been using for 2 months, have been pleased.

I tried magicjack sent it back poor sound quality. Custmor service is only on the internet not phone cs that for me is a problem.








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