Comments on: Skype to launch handset for UK

By: IT News Digest mobile edition

IT News Digest mobile edition — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:44:01 +0000

[...] Skype to launch handset for UK (TechCrunch) [...]

By: Raj Anand

Raj Anand — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:50:03 +0000

This sounds fabulous. I wonder how Vodafone, Orange etc will react to it. Already Jajah (one of my favourite services) online allows you to call other landlines and mobiles.

Free in the States, if both numbers are registered with Jajah and much cheaper calls otherwise. Over the last 3-4 months I have saves £89.61 with them.

By: nate

nate — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:10:45 +0000

The drawback of Skype on the Three X-Series is that you cannot use Skype-out to make international calls, you can only call other Skype users, which is a pretty big flaw in my books.

By: Dave Beck

Dave Beck — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:05:41 +0000

I’ve seen other references to this saying it will use the normal iSkoot practice of using the voice path for the call and data for call setup. A Skype proxy runs on iSkoot servers, not the phone. This has the advantage of actually working, rather than attempting to run VoIP over a limited bandwidth data path without any QoS.

You (and others) can try iSkoot as long as you have a supported phone (several are, you might need Java), a Skype id and a voice/data plan on any UK carrier. Visit the iSkoot website.

By: Skype lanzará su propio teléfono móvil

Skype lanzará su propio teléfono móvil — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:41:24 +0000

[...] viene calientito, tanto TechCrunch UK como BusinessWeek tienen pistas importantes sobre el lanzamiento de un teléfono móvil de Skype, [...]

By: eBay’s Skype Conundrum

eBay’s Skype Conundrum — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:24:43 +0000

[...] best bet for Skype right now is to expand into other areas of voice communications like mobile, and make more deals to embed Skype into big Websites like MySpace. Just don’t expect to see [...]