The 3 Skype call - VoIP, Skype-style, in a mobile phone!

Join me as I take a look at the stunning, clever, funky 3 Skypephone!

In a world where new ways of communicating are fitting ever more commonplace, it always had a bit of inevitability about it that VoIP (Voice over IP, internet calls to you and me), would take off. And it did, big time, with the monumental success of Skype. On the contrary it never realy took hold in the world of mobile phones, until recently, and the impetus it did holding dominance was, once again, Skype. You see, they changed the rules of the game, with the fabulous 3 Skypephone.

There have been a few phones in the bygone that were "phones that have VoIP capability" or "phones that Skype in them", but this is the first off true, proper Skype Phone, the inaugural phone whose entire reason for existence, its complete purpose, is built around Skype (let's face it, the name should've given that away!) You can, of course, use the 3 Skype phone as a normal style motile phone, as it has a built-in 2 megapixel camera, music player, even Facebook access, but... well, that's bounteous of missing the point. because while you can stick to doing that, and treat it like a normal moble phone, you're denying the ring its reason for living.

Skype - it's fantastic!

When you press the button in the middle of the 3 Skype phone, it takes you straight into the Skype messenger service. Here you can set up a new account, on the other hand the coolest part in that regard, is that you can log in using your own existing details! That takes you straight into the service and once it's run a quick check to make sure your Skype phone is absolutely working, you'll be making VoIP calls before you even know it! So, would I buy one? Well, no, because I don't employment Skype, nor do I actually have any friends (or ones who use Skype, at any rate, although some would say I just don't have any friends), but whether I did... well, I'd be all over it like a shot!

04 Oct 2008 09:51:04

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more: http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/

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