Flip Style Skype Phone Speaker Mouse [3-in-1 VoiP Optical Mouse with LCD Display]

We’ve seen a fair few VoiP capable mice here on TFTS and, in all honesty, we remain wholly unconvinced that its anything that would ever appeal to our particular sensibilities (call us traditionalists, but mice are mice, phones are phones) but if space is limited and you don’t mind chatting away to your one eyed desk rodent and you’re looking to address these issues with a budget device this particular mouse – known as the 3-in-1 USB Optical Mouse + Hi-Fi Speaker + Flip-open Skype Phone – may well be for you.

Yes, as you’d probably gathered from the wholly uninventive ‘tell it like it is’ title this is indeed a Deal Extreme product so you can rest assured concerning a number of things – one of them being that it’ll be as cheap as chips and we’ll leave it there.

The mouse itself is of the optical variety though its interesting (and, we suspect, quite telling) that there’s no mention concerning the DPI tracking resolution on offer here – so if you’re looking for a precision pointing device you’ll need to bear that in mind. It does, however, have a scroll wheel – which is nice – as well as 1.5 meters of cabling and, yes, it comes complete with an internally mounted 1.3” LCD display allowing you to see some kind of info (no idea what exactly) when you flip open the device to use it as a VoiP handset.

Interestingly, or not, the mouse, thanks to coming with an internal speaker, is also billed as serving as a mini speaker but, again, you’d need to convince us that listening to your tunes via a mouse is such a good idea as we suspect (we could be wrong) that audio quality is hardly on par with standard speaker systems.

The Deal Extreme (breathe in) 3-in-1 USB Optical Mouse + Hi-Fi Speaker + Flip-open Skype Phone (and….breathe out) will set you back a mere $19 with the usual heavy discounts being offered on bulk purchases.