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First details about the Skype WiFi phone

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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]