Ipevo has rolled out its next generation Skype phone. Coming in at under $45, it is slim, easy-to-use and has a handy-dandy little feature that’s causing some serious buzz.

The feature?

With the touch of a button, you can record your conversation in real-time to your computer’s hard drive.

Skype is a phone-over-Internet service. Calls between two Skype phones are usually free with calls to a regular ‘land-line’ often incurring some kind of fee. This handset has separate hot buttons for making free calls on the Skype calling service and for Skype Out calls to regular phones.

Overall, using Skype instead of the traditional phone line can mean huge savings - especially for people who make a lot of global calls during peak hours. And the technology means that the calls are much clearer and free of the little bugs that made many early ‘Voice Over IP’ phones clunky to use.

Many companies like Ipevo are taking advantage of Skype’s popularity to markets its peripherals and tools.

This is the first one to take advantage of the direct-connect to your computer system with this little Spy vs. Spy enhancement…

With the Ipevo phone, you can save conversations as MP3’s once you install the necessary drivers. Then, with a push of the button you can save the contents of your call to a manufacturer asking for changes to your order, or of your relative’s story about a meaningful time to your family, or any other important conversation.

With MP3-to-text software, it’s just another step to build a transcript of the call.

It’s another ‘the future is now’ moment.

Before you go out and buy that cloak and dagger, though - remember, secretly recording calls is illegal in many states. To make sure these laws are followed, Ipevo has configured a warning alert to appear on the screen of the other person’s computer (for Skype calls) or a beep to be regularly heard (on calls to regular to phones) during recording.

The phone is compatible with PC using Windows XP or higher and Macs with OS X 10.4 or higher (although the drivers for recording calls using a Mac haven’t yet been released).

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