I picked up one the first day that they went on sale and at the time you could only pick from a few area codes, one of them was 206.

They have since started offering 415 numbers, and they don't have a way to change your current one, so it was just easier to buy another one, so I actually have two.

I wouldn't say they are completely bulletproof, but 95% of the time they work great and work behind most standard home firewalls without problem.

All domestic calls are free and incoming is free, unlimited. Free voice mail, too.

It is basically a small (size of a zippo) that plugs into your USB and looks like a USB stick to your computer and runs a little app on the stick to control it.

A very cool thing is that the unit has an RJ11 jack on it, so you can plug in your regular home phone to it and just use it with your existing home phone if you aren't into goofy headsets.

If you are on the road you can toggle to use a USB headset instead of the RJ11 jack. In hotels I've used the hotel's phone on it as well as a nice Plantronics USB wireless headset, both work great.

Overall, a total bargain for $40, not sure how long the company is going to be around, but even for six months, it works good enough to be worth it.

The manager application has a phone book that you can put in all your common numbers and it follows the unit, so you don't have to keep a separate phone directory. Bummer that you can't import phone numbers into it from a comma-delimited file or something.

Another note - they ship fast, when you order one on Monday, you will have it by the end of the week. It comes in one of those hang-packs you would see at Walmart or something that are nearly hermetically sealed in plastic and require the sharpest of scissors to open.

It looks designed to be sold at a retail store because it is bought then registered and configured online, you don't get your number until after you install it on your computer.