Over at 3GSM, Bridgeport, Oberthur, and CounterPath have announced the commercial availability of MobileSTICK. MobileSTICK is a USB device that plugs into a PC or laptop with a fixed line or Wi-Fi broadband connection and launches a PC softphone, secured by a SIM card that utilizes the user’s existing mobile phone number to make and receive phone calls, SMS messages and multimedia (MMS) messages.Â
Now all the content you’ve got on your PC can be easily sent via MMS using a PC drag and drop interface. Drag a photo to the softphone, and send it via MMS using MobileSTICK.Â
It’s a pretty neat take on the whole fixed-mobile convergence space.
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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker 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.
