My wonderful wife and I just returned from a week-long trip to England where we tried many different technologies in order to stay connected while being overseas. My findings: it’s incredibly easy and cheap to stay in touch while in Jolly Ol’ England. The tools we utilized were: an unlocked Euro Nokia N97 (my primary…
As a US-based mobile nut, I’m always looking abroad to Europe and Asia to see what’s coming in the mobile industry.’a0 For some reason, it seems that with mobile hardware, software, and web services, many innovations hit Asia and Europe before coming to North American shores.’a0 I think it has to do with regulatory environments…
Skype, the darling of PC-based Internet telephony, announced news today that will extend the company’s reach beyond the personal computer. At Mobile Wold Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Skype announced a partnership with mobile handset maker Nokia whereby Skype software will be pre-loaded onto some NSeries phones starting in the third quarter of 2009. The upcoming…
Andy Abramson writes that Hutchison/3, one of the leading mobile network operators in the UK and elsewhere, might be looking to partner with the a USA carrier to bring the SkypePhone to the United States. This potential development correlates with my interview with Frank Meehan, where I asked Meehan if the SkypePhone might cross the…
When I’ve spoken about the Skype phone before, I was operating under an assumption. I thought the skype phone would be dual mode. That is, normal cell phone calls would go out over the normal GSM network (like every other GSM phone call), and calls to skype contacts would go out over the 3G network…
According to what I’m reading, 3 UK is going to release the skype phone on Monday, October 29. I wrote about this before and I’m very excited that this news broke today. I think skype is poised to cause ripples in the cell phone market, first in Europe, and hopefully North American is next. The…
Skype, the darling of VoIP, is taking a very proactive role in mobile communications and are about to release their own hybrid cell/wi-fi phone. Up until this point, Skype has worked with other parties to bring Skype away from the desktop computer. Examples of this include: partnering to make wi-fi phones with Belkin, Netgear and…