Broadcom announced a chipset for wireless IP phones that will create a new category of consumer products. Wi-Fi® phones based on this chipset will offer consumers a cordless phone replacement that can also support data applications such as web browsing, email and instant messaging. This solution is based on the convergence of Broadcom’s award-winning 54g(TM) … Read more
I’m sitting inside a McDonalds on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris. They have free WiFi. In theory if i still had Skype or my Xten softphone clients installed I could make phone calls. The price. Free for thirty minutes. If you want more time, you just open another browser window. The three McSurfers are all … Read more
Fatport has a new VoIP service offeringthat works in the hotspots. A Caifornia company introduces a WiFi ready VoIP phone which sounds a lot like the Pulver Innovations and ZyXEL products. Are you seeing a pattern here. People want a world without wires. They also want connectivity for lower cost. On Net calls are going … Read more
SipThat.com’s author envisions VoIP using SIP and EV-DO. Well, I’ve tried it, and while it works, the sound is not what I would call great. If you recall, back in June of this year I coined the acronym VoEVDO.
When I read this announcement I looked at it as another product coming out. When I add in the recent double play from Verizon I see the merits of this in another light. What I really want to see is VoIP wireless unit, that is both base station and cordless phone in the house. 802.11g, … Read more
If you were one of the first to buy the new T-Mobile iPaq 6315 and you want to use Skype you out of luck. The Skype program needs a x400 Intel processor, something the 6315 lacks. About Skype for Pocket PC Version 1.0: Skype for Pocket PC Version 1.0 can be simply download from www.skype.com. … Read more
Long thought of as just a dial up player with borrowed infrastructure, the boys from Atlanta last year quietly launched a VoIP service called Unlimited Voice. Like so much of Earthlinks product portfolio the service comes from other companies, with this service coming reportedly from Vonage. When you add in that Eartlink private labels wireless … Read more
Skype is at DemoMobile 2004 in La Jolla today. They passed out a press release in the press room about Skype on the Pocket PC featuring WiFi and SkypeOut so calls can terminate to PSTN. The key is the aspect that Skype Out will be part of the 1.0 release. Add Skype out to a … Read more
What I like about Vonage is they are always thinking ahead. So this idea, which I actually had and experimented with Webley back in 2002/2003 with using my Sony Vaio Picturebook, a hacked version of Windows Messenger and from Starbucks is really not breakthrough to me, but it is a great idea. Make a WiFi … Read more
Nancy Gohring at WiFi Net News has a nice post and links to a story that seems to be building in New York to use WiFi and VoIP together. The whole idea of WiFi phoning is something that I feel will be totally disruptive to the cellular industry, which is why T-Mobile is involved so … Read more
