First details about the Skype WiFi phone

They're not quite ready to show us what it actually looks like or when it might be available (which may or may not be a bad sign), but earlier today Skype revealed a few details about the new WiFi phone that CEO Niklas Zennstrom hinted at a few months ago. There are already several different WiFi phones out there (we reviewed the UTStarcom F1000, aka Vonage's WiFi phone, back in April), but this one'll be fully-integrated with Skype's VoIP service, and when you power up the phone you'll be asked to enter your user Skype Name and password, which will then pull up your full contact list. No word on whether or not the phone works with SkypeOut and SkypeIn, but if they know what's good for them they'll figure it out.

[Via Skype Journal]

[Mike @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Looking forward to this.

Curious to see how they will address emergency number features.

[John @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Be more interesting to see how they handle their customer base going to prison for using an open WiFi connection. :)

[Foo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

LOL nice #2

[Clement @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Finally, we come to my number two man. His name? Number Two.

[Dyl4N @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Did they come up with a way to use my wifi PPC as a wifi phone yet?

[trevor @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Dyl4N...you can already use skype for pocket pc to make skype out calls...is that what you are looking for?

[Herman @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

this could be interesting

[Trejkaz @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

... where "fully-integrated" means "permanently locked in."

[Alan Gahtan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I've tried running VOIP clients on my HP 4150 PPC but find the voice quality is a little choppy. In contrast, I find that using stand-alone wifi voip handsets provide better quality.