Skype Adds To The Gadgets On Your Desk With A Cordless Skype Phone
from the ooh,-single-purpose-phone...- dept
Skype has been talking about a Skype handset before, and now it's apparently coming out. Tom Keating has the scoop and a detailed review of the new Skype cordless phone built by Linksys. From the description, it certainly sounds like they did a lot of things right for what was being built. However, what remains to be seen is whether or not the Skype revolution needs its very own proprietary handset. Most people already have a phone. In many cases they have more than one: a landline or a VoIP line and a mobile phone. This new device has to be separate from all that. So, now you have a third phone that only works if your computer is on and has to work through Skype. This isn't convergence... it's just adding to the pile of gadgets.
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no linux, no mac. no buy
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Linksys?
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What, No WiFi?
Vonage is already working on a phone like this (it's out in Beta), so maybe this isn't too far out into the future for Skype.
http://vonage.com/wifi/
Come on, Skype! You cahn do eet! (Say it like the requisite Mexican acting dude on Adam Sandler's movies, with all due respect to Caddy Shack.)
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Re: What, No WiFi?
a cell ro fixed can be made with skype
you make a cell call to your local skype number be it cee or fixed and enter the net
you call the skype number of your friend . If hes connected to skype then u talk.
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One more mobile device
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Thank you,
Steve
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