Skype Mobile Phone Launches Overseas $100 in nine countries, none of them named 'U.S.' Tipped by Romney2012 
Skype and European mobile phone carrier 3 will launch the new Skype mobile phone November 2 in the UK, with additional market launches coming shortly in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and Sweden. The phone, the first to have integrated Skype functionality, will cost about $100. There's no SkypeOut -- users can call other Skype users for free, but calls to non-Skype users are routed traditionally across 3's network. At the moment, Skype has stated that there's no plans to bring the device to the United States. Video previews of the phone can be found here and here.
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  intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | so let me get this straight... it is pay as you go, but calling other skype users is free. there is no Skypeout, but calls to non skype users are routed over the 3 network....uh isn't that the same as skypeout? | |
|  | | |  a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY
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| well, the article says traditional call are routed over the cell network.
That basically implies that SkypeOut calls don't even exist!
Skype-Skype calls go for free, but there's no way in hell that a cell provider will actually market a service to cannibalize their existing services. (Well, u can go buy a smart phone over here, and get EV-DO service on it. Then its just a matter of loading Skype software on it.
So yea, if a cell provider itself actually advertises low-cost Skype-out calls, thats the end of their actual cash cow business.
Talk about marketing gimmicks......... | |
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garmst
join:2000-09-17
New York, NY | Who needs this phone? I have Skype on my PPC-6700 from SPRINT. Plus I have SKYPEOUT to boot! Am I supposed to cry? | |
| |  YippzPremium
join:2005-05-04
Fort Walton Beach, FL | Re: Who needs this phone? said by garmst:I have Skype on my PPC-6700 from SPRINT. Plus I have SKYPEOUT to boot! Am I supposed to cry? You will when Sprint shuts your phone off for violation of your TOS -- no voip calls on your PPC-6700 --  Enjoy the $175 termination fee too... | |
| | | | | | a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY Reviews:
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| Re: Who needs this phone? ehhh, dude, you DO realize that Sprint is one of the few carriers that actually ENCOURAGE VoIP and multimedia streaming, don't you?
Also, unlike verizonWireless, sprint PowerVision actually was built to stream live TV and Radio, unlike Verizon's joke of a network........
Ever noticed that sprint users have reported downloading over 40 gigs in a month, and still never got shut off?
wow, self pwnage at its very best.... | |
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join:1999-07-29
Redmond, WA | hmm.. I think, for once, I'm not impressed. Usually when a new phone rolls out overseas, I'm all for it. This time, all I get is a device that lets me use it to chat with other Skype members for free; I don't even use Skype, much less to chat with other people. Other than that nifty trick, it's a regular mobile phone.
Neat idea, but not too useful in the US where night/weekend minutes are usually free, along with M2M and bountiful daytime minutes.
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| | | look at the bigger picture With Skype functionality, the phone bypasses the traditional phone network, in Europe where there are almost as many countries as the USA has states the person can be called using skype for free, no international toll charges. The caller and the callee both pay nothing, also with "3 like home" the phone can roam internationally and continue to use the skype functionalty for free on other 3 networks. | |
|  wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | I bet it sounds like crap! I can tell you from personal experience attempting to use Skype on both EVDO and HSDPA connections that it sounds terrible. Heck, even 80% of the Skype calls made from my PC sound like crap! I dont think I have ever had a Skype call without a one second plus delay and background noise, and thats why I dont use it. I even went and bought a special adapter that you connect to your PC, and then you connect your regular telephone to it and it routes your calls over Skype. Pure garbage...............
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| elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | Skype is as Skype does You can have it.
C'mon, its based on peer-to-peer networking of Windows PCs.
Of course it sounds like crap, every time.
Competitive international long-distance services are cheap enough that no one needs to bother with Skype. | |
| | | | Re: Skype is as Skype does Skype works great. And just to inform you, it runs on a lot of non-Windows boxes too.
Sounds like you have a crappy PC, crappy sound card, and/or a crappy microphone/headset. That's your problem, not Skype's. | |
| | |  h4x0r3dPremium
join:2003-04-13
Oxford, MS | Re: Skype is as Skype does exactly ive never had a problem with skype | |
| | | | | Yeah...and 2 crappy phones too ! ha ! | |
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| | | Works great here on Windoze and Linux. I use it to talk to my sissy on the West coast and one of my good friends in southern Florida. | |
| |  MysticGogetaThe Robot DevilPremium
join:2005-03-14
League City, TX | Uh your dead wrong it works on Linux and Mac and Vista. Get your facts strait before you troll.
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