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Skype Releases PocketPC Version Of VoIP Software

Posted by simoniker on from the mobile-phone? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to WindowsForDevices.com, Skype Technologies has launched a free beta release of peer-to-peer voice calling software for WiFi-enabled handheld devices running Microsoft's Pocket PC software platform. PocketSkype is a 'thin' version of Skype, the company's original peer-to-peer voice-calling for Windows PCs which was released in August 2003. Like Skype, PocketSkype can be used to make free, unlimited, and unmetered calls anywhere in the world."

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  1. wow-- the first piece of pocket pc spyware? by way2trivial · · Score: 5, Insightful

    brought to you by the malkers of kazaa

    is there any spyware for the pocketpc that predates? I hope they got a patent on it..

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  2. free phone calls ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful


    sounds like they need to watch their advertising standards, unless i can phone any telephone number in the world - for free , anytime
    otherwise its just a long range walkie talkie

  3. Hopefully the FCC will stay away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The FCC has been muttering about/threatening to regulate VoIP as telephony. This would allegedly have some "benefits" like 911 service working from VoIP and "reliability" but it seems like it is impossible to offer free calling service under FCC regulation, much like it is impossible to have a new drug approved by the FDA without tons of money behind it, even if the drug itself is non-commercial. Hopefully the regulators at the FCC will stay away from VoIP until it is so entrenched that it will be tough to stop, like P2P services.

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  4. Re:Suddenly... by homer_ca · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Suddenly, WiFi monitoring becomes incredibly worthwhile

    Well considering the pitiful range of most handheld Wifi cards, you'd do better to just walk up to the guy and eavesdrop on his conversation. It's not like people talking on cellphones in public are trying very hard to speak softly. More often they're obnoxiously loud like "look at me. I'm important because I'm discussing important business on my cellphone"

  5. When Free doesn't mean Free by bogie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry but your page of "Free" providers is nothing more than a link to a bunch of commercial services which cost money. How can companies that charge $24 a month or charge by the minute be considered "Free service Providers"? If they were really Free than there would be no fees for the service.

    You might as well have linked to a bunch of Cell phone plans and said "Free Long Distance Providers"....when you sign up for their $50 a month plan.

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  6. Gimmie an F! Gimmie a U! Gimmie a D! by adolf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um.

    "Communicate with [...] outside parties" == talk to the people who call you on your lovely new Skype kit, perchance? (after all, the whole point is to communicate with third parties, isn't it? or did you just want to talk to the folks at Skyper all day?)

    "Distributed by third parties". Third parties, eh? Like tucows and c|net? Those third parties? Or maybe they mean "third parties" like those promiscuous P2P folks that allow the system to work in the first place. This sounds Really Dangerous. Really.

    "Skyper will not be liable for damage". I mean. No shit. The GPL has similar verbiage, and so does every other bit of boilerplate in the world.

    How you manage to read promises of spyware into those paragraphs, I'll never know.

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