WiFi Skype Cellphone for no more phone bills
Accton Launching Skype Cellphone
WWJ—Taiwan-based Accton Technology unveiled its Skype-enabled Wi-Fi phone, the SkyFone WM1185-T, in Tokyo…a talk time of up to four hours with a stand-by-time of up to 20 hours and is likely to be initially priced at over US$150 …
Combined with free phone service provided by Skype software, a WiFi cellphone here in central parts of Tokyo would be ideal. In the central areas and in the younger upscale parts of town there’s always an open WiFi connection available. Most of the train stations have a WiFi available at a modest (or free) charge and Yahoo!BB WiFi is quickly expanding. I’m such a cheapskate, I would just leach off open WiFi where I could find it,. At my previous job in the downtown banking district of Yokohama there was 100% free-WiFi coverage and there’s total coverage at no cost in my upscale neighborhood in the ‘burbs between Tokyo and Yokohama.
There are a couple GSM/WiFi cellphones already offered in Japan but these phone require the use for-pay WiFi networks and not free, non-cost Skype calls. This WiFi SkyFone(tm) by Accton uses a built-in Skype client that allow the cellphone to perform free Skype calls which previously required the use of a PC.
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