IBM Internet Connection Phone

Note: The IBM ICPhone is no longer being supported. You can still download and use it without support. Download a version of the Internet Connection Phone: Windows 95 & Windows/NT standard version (icn201b1.exe) (for all sound cards) -- Version 2.0 just released! Updates with enhanced Audio and work around fix for MWAVE71C Problems. Windows 95 & Windows/NT with special install for Aptiva models (icn201ap.exe) which have problems with InstallShield. This version also includes the workaround fix for the MWAVEW71C driver. Windows 3.1 Mwave only (icm120g1.exe). OS/2 version (ico111b1.zip). Take a look at IBM's JavaPhone. Or select one of the topics on this page to find out more about: Features and functions. Hardware and software requirements. Installation instructions.   Features and functions Internet Connection Phone Version 2.0 now available for Windows/95 and Windows/NT... Here's a new version of Internet Connection Phone with better voice quality and support for Interest Groups (Topics). This version is compatible with the previous version and lets you talk with users who use either this version, or the older version. Internet Connection Phone lets you talk, send data and work collaboratively all on a single telephone line. IBM's easy to use Internet Connection Phone is the first Internet phone to support the use of speaker phones with full duplex capability and echo suppression, thus providing you with high voice quality. This version supports 2 codecs, GSM-VQ which is a high quality GSM that lets you work on 486/66MHz machines and G723-6.3kbps which gives you a better voice quality on 586/100MHz machines. In fact, the quality is comparable to the best cellular systems available today. Internet Connection Phone has the major functions we expect from modern telephones and more! Some of the more advanced features are: Call back previous callers. Support for Interest Groups (Topics). Full duplex speakerphone support. Adjust microphone sensitivity. Automatic smoothness control. Enhanced User List enabling you to search for other users using a variety of methods provided by new Search Filter capabilities. See a users' details before calling them. Adjust voice quality by adjusting the buffering. Should be low for LAN with minimal delay and high for bad internet connection. Codec selection (G723). Support for calling users directly via IP addresses. Automatic answering for incoming calls. Configure the phone for computer speakers or headphones. Select from various servers to find other Internet Connection Phone users.   Hardware and Software requirements 486/DX66 (for GSMVQ codec), or 586/DX100 (for G.723 codec), minimum 8MB RAM. Require minimum Pentium 100Mhz for machines with the MWAVE71C driver to workaround the rate conversion problem of the new MWAVE driver. Sound cards such as Sound Blaster cards or Mwave digital signal processor, built into IBM's multimedia PC's and Thinkpads. Both full duplex and half duplex are supported. A microphone and speaker (or headphones) connected to the sound card. A network connection through a modem and SLIP/PPP to an Internet access provider, or through a local area network adapter. TCP/IP stacks: IBM Internet Access Kit (SLIP), Trumpet (SLIP), NetManage (PPP), and Windows 95* (Dial-Up Networking SLIP/PPP). Or TCP/IP for OS/2. For Full Duplex Audio use: Sound Blaster cards with full-duplex drivers, Mwave Cards such as Whale*, Dolphin*, MultiMediaModem* & Thinkpad (built-in) Mwave, or any other Full Duplex sound card, or two standard sound cards.   Installation instructions Download a flavor of the Internet Connection Phone (Windows with Mwave support, Windows 95 or Windows/NT, Special version for Aptiva or the OS/2 version) and then follow the appropriate installation procedure! Unpack and install the Internet Connection Phone for Windows 3.1 ( Mwave only) From the File Menu, select Run, then Browse. Change to the directory where you saved the file. Select the file (icm120g1.exe, for example). Click OK to unpack the files. From the File Menu, select Run, then Browse. Change to the directory where you saved the file. Select SETUP. Click OK to finish the installation. Unpack and install the enhanced Internet Connection Phone for Windows 95/WindowsNT There are 2 installation packages for WIN95/WinNT: Using InstallShield which should work on most computers. Special packaging for Aptiva computers which have problems during the Install process. InstallShield package installation From the Start Menu, select Run, then Browse. Change to the directory where you saved the file. Select the file (icn201b1.exe, for example). Click OK to unpack the files. See the readme.txt for additional details. Install package for Aptiva which has problems with InstallShield From the Start Menu, select Run, then Browse. Change to the directory where you saved the file. Select the file (icn201AP.exe, for example). Click OK to unpack the files. From the Start Menu, select Run, then Browse. Change to the directory where you saved the file. Select SETUP. Click OK to finish the installation. Unpack and install Internet Connection Phone for OS/2 Open an OS/2 window. Change to the directory where you saved the file. Unzip the file (ico111b1.zip, for example) using pkunzip2.exe now included in OS/2. Stay in the OS/2 window on the directory where you downloaded and unzipped the file. From the command line execute: SET ICPHONE = [drive]:\dir where the directory is the one used for unzipping the file into. From the command line execute: SETUP to finish the installation.