Skype Unleashed Onto Cell Phones 74
An anonymous reader writes "Today Hutchinson announced that it would provide unlimited cell phone to cell phone Skype calls via a 3G connection. This new service, called X-series, is part of a new alliance made up of Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Orb and Sony Ericsson. According to the article, users will also be able to 'search Google and Yahoo, send MSN instant messages to their friends, watch their TVs from a Slingbox, access their computer at home with Orb and buy or sell stuff on eBay.' Users will only get charged a monthly fee for access, in a similar way to broadband charges."
Re:Fine print... (Score:3, Informative)
Actually.. (Score:3, Informative)
Latency? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:What am I missing? (Score:3, Informative)
There's also the fact that this is a flat-rate plan rather than a per-minute or per-packet plan. Presumably that's aided by specific VOIP software in the cells themselves. VOIP is a bandwidth hog.
Bandwidth hog (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Uh, English, please? (Score:2, Informative)
> fee (that is pretty low). It really couldn't possibly be any simpler.
If you've got a low monthly fee for a cell phone contract which will let you call people anywhere in the world on their cellphone for no additional fee then I want to know about it!
Already Possible with Windows Mobile Phones (Score:2, Informative)