Om Malik cross links VoIP Watch‘s WiSIP piece with this quote: "The sound and form factor is cellular circa 1990." Yeah, they’re clunky. And how about the price! The good news is that this is all going to change. Several presenters at VON, representing chip companies, talked about this generation as being separate WiFi and VoIP chips, next gen as a combined chip, and by 2006 a "cellulan" chipset that would roam on VoIP / Wifi networks and cellular transparently. By 2007 it would be reasonable to expect the mobile operators to be giving these away in exchane for 12 month contracts etc etc etc…
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
