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16 November 2006

X-Series customer will be able to make and receive unlimited Skype calls with Skype PC users anywhere in the world, and to any other Skype 3 mobile customer. Skype to Skype calls on a 3 mobile will be free

3-x-series Reading this make me wonder what the viability is of devices like the early Skype Wifi Phones … Anyway… who cares, right… Reading this you should now know what cellphones to buy… Let’s move on… It is interesting that a company like Skype that is not a Telecom Company is moving in on the cellphones like this. Who cares what they are anyways. It is happening right ? I wish I had never had a phone-bill in the past 30 years, then I would have saved so much money to buy a good expensive cellphone today … Check this out :

« The company has announced the global launch of the X-Series form 3: a move it describes the beginning of Internet access via mobile broadband, saying it will extend access to several of the core applications and uses of the broadband internet to the mobile handset, with a new pricing model.

The full range of X-services from 3 will initially be available on two handsets the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson W950i. An X-Series customer will be able to make and receive unlimited Skype calls with Skype PC users anywhere in the world, and to any other Skype 3 mobile customer. Skype to Skype calls on a 3 mobile will be free.» source.
Great Podcast : http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com/upload_docs/2006/11/Corporate/1840/1840_eng.htm
« Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom told NewsWireless after the presentation that it was absolutely true that Skype was now free over the air from the new phones - but not if you were calling another phone. "Skype Out and Skype In are things the current client doesn't support, and we hope to get them working in 2007 2008 timeframe," said Zennstrom. "But the current client, we say will 'delight' existing users, because it is so simple to use on a mobile phone. You'll not only be able to call any Skype users around the world - on PC or on X-Series - but you'll even have the little green logo to show if they're awake." » source.
« Hutchison Whampoa, the owners of 3, haven't been doing this all by themselves. The partner list is extensive including Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, EBay, Microsoft's MSN, Orb and Sony Ericsson. The service is launching in the UK on 1st December, with Three's other markets (Italy, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel, Ireland and Sweden) during 2007. The service will launch with two handsets supporting all of the features, the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson W950i »
« You don't have to be in front of your PC to email, instant message, share photos, download podcasts or surf the Internet. You can do all of this - and loads more - on your mobile with the X-Series from 3. To make it happen, we've teamed up with the best names on the web like Skype, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger. You can even watch your home TV on your mobile using Sling. Or use your mobile to access whatever's on your home PC, like your photos, using Orb. » source. But only MSN advertising on this web…
"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." source.

I guess when this service become globally available, it will probably also kill or hurt other Software allows Internet cell calls, like www.fring.com, www.iskoot.com, www.eqo.com, www.soonr.com. After all why would you need these plugins if you can have Skype direct on your fancy cellphone. Skype direct, I like that. Skype goes direct.

Test-rapport of these devices by www.skype-gadgets.com : no sample. no report yet.

16 November 2006 in Cellphones, Current Affairs, Telecom, VoIP / Skype | Permalink

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« The company has announced the global launch of the X-Series form 3: a move it describes the beginning of Internet access via mobile broadband, saying it will extend access to several of the core applications and uses of the broadband internet to the mobile handset, with a new pricing model.

The full range of X-services from 3 will initially be available on two handsets the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson W950i. An X-Series customer will be able to make and receive unlimited Skype calls with Skype PC users anywhere in the world, and to any other Skype 3 mobile customer. Skype to Skype calls on a 3 mobile will be free.» source.
Great Podcast : http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com/upload_docs/2006/11/Corporate/1840/1840_eng.htm
« Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom told NewsWireless after the presentation that it was absolutely true that Skype was now free over the air from the new phones - but not if you were calling another phone. "Skype Out and Skype In are things the current client doesn't support, and we hope to get them working in 2007 2008 timeframe," said Zennstrom. "But the current client, we say will 'delight' existing users, because it is so simple to use on a mobile phone. You'll not only be able to call any Skype users around the world - on PC or on X-Series - but you'll even have the little green logo to show if they're awake." » source.
« Hutchison Whampoa, the owners of 3, haven't been doing this all by themselves. The partner list is extensive including Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, EBay, Microsoft's MSN, Orb and Sony Ericsson. The service is launching in the UK on 1st December, with Three's other markets (Italy, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel, Ireland and Sweden) during 2007. The service will launch with two handsets supporting all of the features, the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson W950i »
« You don't have to be in front of your PC to email, instant message, share photos, download podcasts or surf the Internet. You can do all of this - and loads more - on your mobile with the X-Series from 3. To make it happen, we've teamed up with the best names on the web like Skype, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger. You can even watch your home TV on your mobile using Sling. Or use your mobile to access whatever's on your home PC, like your photos, using Orb. » source. But only MSN advertising on this web…
"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." source.

Test-rapport of these devices by www.skype-gadgets.com : no sample. no report yet.

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