The present invention discloses a telephone for communication via Internet comprising: a control unit, a display, memory coupled to the control unit; a converter coupled to the control unit for converting between digital and analog signal; a vocal I/O unit coupled to the converter; a MODEN coupled to the control unit; and an Internet phone module coupled to the control unit to allow a user may synchronously transmit or receive data through the Internet. The telephone further comprises a wireless local area network (WLAN) module coupled to the control unit. An image capturing device is coupled to the control unit.