I've had an mVox MV100 USB speakerphone on my desk hooked up to Skype recently. It's simple and it works. Just plug it in and it is ready to go. It looks very similar to the Actiontec VoSky model
that Bill reported on last week. If you like talking in a hands free speaker phone environment, find yourself out with your laptop and want to bring the whole boardroom into a conference call then this is a good solution. It's light weight and needs no software to set it up.

Specs from the mvox site:

* Full duplex speaker phone with 110dB peak volume
* Speaker: 2w peak, 40mm,4ohm, 500Hz to 5KHz
* 8KHz input sampling rate
* USB Audio
* 2.5mm headset jack
* Dimensions: 3.2 x 2.2 x 0.8 inches (8.1 x 5.5 x 2.0 cm)
* Weight: 1.5 ounces (42 grams)
* DSP voice Processor
* 40 mm mylar speaker and Electret Condenser omni-directional microphones

The MV100 comes with a mini-disk that loads a small software program that enables additional control over the volume control There is no volume control on the device itself. This doesn't appear to be a shortcoming in my use so far. The MV100 retails for $39.95 which appears consistent with this type of device. mVox also makes a much more sophisticated bluetooth speakerphone the MV900.

Separately, I still believe there is an opportunity to create better devices that will more effectively integrate with Skype. These are things I'm looking for in future speaker phones.
1. An answer and hangup button or voice commands.
2. Multi-modal. It need to integrate with other devices that may be plugged into the PC. Thus can it run with a handset and headset plugged into the PC at the same time. Can I switch between devices while in a call?
3. Volume controls, mute speaker on the device would be useful. These can tie into the Skype API.
4. The VoIPVoice products have demonstrated the capability for voice dialing. This could be intergrated into speakerphones as well.
5. Log-in by voice. Use voice recognition to log into and out of Skype and set online presence and status.