Om Malik has a post today on The Truth About Nokia VOIP:Om Malik has a post today on The Truth About Nokia VOIP:
There is a lot of talk about Nokia putting my favorite, The Gizmo Project, on their WiFi-enabled mobile phones. Unfortunately, it is a gross exaggeration. The Gizmo Project, a VoIP service from Michael Robertson’s SIPphone, currently works on one Nokia phone – the Nokia N80ie. (ie=Internet Edition.) That’s it – one phone that costs a whopping $499, and is currently not sold by any U.S. carrier. You have to buy it directly from Nokia. The only other device manufactured by Nokia that supports Gizmo Project is the Nokia 770 Tablet. I admit, the service works flawlessly on both devices.
But like me, he’s waiting for VOIP applications to be included in more Nokia phones. We have Gizmo Project on the N80 and the 770 Tablet, but all of my contacts are on Skype. Where is Skype for the 770, the N and E Series phones? I am forced to use Gizmo Project (which I use mostly to call landlines and mobile phones) when I want to avoid cellular roaming charges.
I love my 770 Tablet and used it at Le Web 3.0 in Paris last month, instead of lugging around a laptop. And I already recently reviewed the Nokia N80 Internet Edition phone, which I absolutely recommend (see review here).
But yes, we need Skype on these devices.
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