iSkoot: PC calling on mobile phone
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Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and lovers that are stucking to the phone but don’t anything to computer-based calls will be happy. The US-based phone company starts distributing their iSkoot Mobile Networks, which offers mobile users to make Skype calls on their cellphones.
This sounds no very new though, mainly because these last weeks iSkoot has been giving its beta version to test for free. But they finally got Cingular as a first major partner and Skype as their first major VoIP call service.
The software explained by said Jacob Guedalia, iSkoot Chief Executive Officer, in their press release : “The iSkoot Mobile Network completely frees Skype users from their PCs. It provides an on-ramp to the PC-PC network for cell phone users. With the iSkoot software solution on your mobile phone, consumers can use the Internet to call their online buddies without ever having to use their PC or a broadband connection. Once cell phone users download the iSkoot software to their regular handsets, they will be able to do everything they do with PC Calling, but with true mobility, even away from Wi-Fi hot spots.”
The iSkoot software client is currently supported on select Nokia Series 60 handsets. Additional support for Motorola RAZR, Treo, and Nokia Series 40 handsets is the next step. And iSkoot carefully points out on their product data sheet that they use the Skype API and are not endorsed or certified by Skype. iSkoot also aims to bring interoperability for Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger.
Have you already tried? Then, give us your opinion.
Feb 15, 2006 | By Nuno
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