WiFi

Hands-on with the Nokia N81

November 21, 2007

For the last few days I've been carrying Nokia's answer to iPhone with me — the 8G N81 entertainment phone.  Piano black with brushed aluminum, and a slick slider, it feels solid and comfortable in the hand.  Moreover, it's stuffed with finishing touches like the individual buttons that illuminate on demand for particular applications.  The [...]

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Mobivox vs Truphone: What kind of mobile user are you?

October 15, 2007

Andy thinks that T-Mobile's submarine play is UMA, and that Truphone, with it's use of WiFi to carry phone calls, is the competition's answer to UMA.   Go read his reasoning. I'm not sure I totally agree.  Not that Truphone doesn't have a great service, but ultimately UMA plays (and indeed, all alternate wireless services) are [...]

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FON and Time Warner link up

April 23, 2007

It looks as if FON has hit the jackpot with a distribution deal with Time Warner. Time Warner will let its home broadband users turn their connections into WiFi hotspots.  They hope to provide cost effective WiFi hotspots for consumers who just want to check email, or do a little casual surfing. FON USA CEO Joanna Rees has been widely [...]

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What's the CRAAAZIEST place you want to make Skype calls from??

April 13, 2007

Joanna Stern, over at LAPTOP, tipped me off to a cool new bundle that the Skype store is offering.  To kick off the opening of its new online store (skype.com/shop), the VoIP provider is offering a SMC WiFi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and a year's worth of free Skype voicemail for $159. That's about $50 [...]

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Heading to Toronto for DemoCamp 12

February 5, 2007

I jumped on the train a few minutes ago at Fallowfield Station in Ottawa.  Heading to Toronto for DemoCamp 12, where organizer David Crow has agreed to give me a short spot for an iotum Talk-Now demo.  Thank you David! The really cool part? Right now I am sitting on the train, logged into Via’s [...]

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T-Mobile: "Owned" by Skype? Or maybe not…

December 26, 2006

I just finished chatting with Andy about his Mylo.  Andy loves his Mylo.  He was calling me from the Starbucks near his house, using their T-Mobile WiFi and Skype on Mylo for… nothing.  Quality was pretty good, although Starbucks was a pretty noisy place. The way Andy sees it, Skype has done something totally subversive [...]

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WiFi on the Nokia N93

November 12, 2006

One of the features I have really been looking forward to on the latest crop of Nokia phones is WiFi connectivity.  These phones have cognoscenti like me excited, but they’re striking terror into the hearts of the cellular carriers because of their potential to steal voice traffic from the cellular networks.  In fact, the carriers are [...]

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Shooting at an OPEN NET

September 25, 2006

#1 VoIP Blogger Andy Abramson is calling for the creation of an Open NET initiative.  He’d like to see institutions, like corporations, universities, and public institutions open up their networks for public permitted access.  He wants to see limited public access available outside the corporate firewall. Great idea! In practice, many corporations already do this, [...]

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GoogleFi: Good For Voice

August 3, 2006

Over on GigaOm, Katie Fehrenbach reports on her experience using VoIP clients on the new Google WiFi network in MountainView.  Good quality, in areas where the signal was strong enough.  This mirrors my experience using VoIP clients in a variety of circumstances, and on different networks.  The biggest problem, identified in the comments area, is [...]

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Earthlink's WiFi Dreams

July 6, 2006

Katie Fehrenbacher has wasted no time since starting with GigaOm yesterday.  This morning she has a scoop on Earthlink’s WiFi Phone plans.  Earthlink will sell voice plans on WiFi by the end of the year, and WiFi only phones. According to Katie’s story, the phones work well at speeds up to about 40 miles per hour.  Perfect [...]

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