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Cisco's Wi-Fi Phone

Posted by timothy on from the check-your-terms-of-service dept.

Forbes.com has a quick look at Wi-Fi-enabled VOIP phone. If a company deploys it in more than one location you can take the phone with you, and it acts just like the phone on your desk. Calls across the country or potentially across the ocean can be as free as a call across the office. There's also plans to incorporate support for wireless phone networks.

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  1. War-calling by jemenake · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey... now I can drive around town and make calls to China with someone else's WAN connection....
    ... wait... you mean it's not going to drive their bills sky-high? Pffffff! What's the point, then? :)

  2. Wireless phone networks? by antiher0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Phones without cords? What is this world coming to?

  3. Dupe. by E1ven · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if it's compatible with this phone?

    -Colin

    --
    Colin Davis
  4. Traditional Phone Companies by tindur · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will this have any impact on traditional phone companies?

  5. Wow by Dr_LHA · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was wondering when somebody was going to invent a kind of "Mobile Phone". Imagine being able to make calls from whereever you like? Its an amazing idea - I can throw away my 100 ft telephone extension cable now! I hope these "Mobile Phones" catch on!

  6. yikes! by EvilStein · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The devices will start shipping in June with a list price of about $595 a handset."

    Wow, that's a costly phone..

    "Sir, I think that we can save the company money by NOT buying those expensive phones and just letting employees actually return their voicemails when they get to the office. No need to spend $595 per phone just to bug people when they're on lunch!" ;)

  7. You know... by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But wander from your desk long enough and chances are high that you'll come back to a telephone with that red voice-mail light glowing, meaning you've missed a call.

    Sometimes that's the whole idea.

    --
    The coolest voice ever.