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Motorola Plans Wi-Fi Cell Phones

Posted by timothy on from the wifi-jump-ropes-are-next dept.

Otto writes "This AP article over at CNN talks about Motorola's plans to create a cell phone that can seemlessly switch calls between cell networks and VoIP over WiFi, when it sees WiFi available to it. Thus reducing on call costs. Personally, I think it'd be cool just to have a cell phone that could use my own WiFi at home and be cellular when I'm out in the rest of the world."

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  1. Where are they? by platypussrex · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article talks about all these low cost WiFi hotspots. We have a local college where you must be a student or faculty, a Borders where you can pay T-Mobile $30 a month, and that's about it. Or maybe they are talking about crusing the neighbourhood looking for unsecured home wireless connections? Hmmmmm!

  2. Ouch... by Thelonious+Monk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This could seriously hurt cell phone service providers. With the growing popularity and widespread adoption of wi-fi everywhere, I wouldn't see a need to even have a provider. This is of course the phone is able to seamlessly jump from one wifi network to another - but then comes into consideration of reliable signals yadda yadda... It was only time for this to happen.

  3. Re:Who has an IDT Cell Phone? by waferhead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You missed the point:

    The last people who want this to work are the big carriers.

    (looking up IDTs stock price...)