Hold up just a second, this is more than your average WiFi-powered
Skype handset for yakking it up while you're wandering around the abode in your skivvies. In fact, it's none other than the follow-on to 3's
Skypephone of last year -- the aptly-named Skypephone S2 -- offering HSDPA data, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 50MB of memory with a microSD slot for plenty more, and pretty much all the Skype support you can handle (hence the name, we suppose). Skype-to-Skype calls are completely free from the phone, and the Skype service can be kept active by adding £10 (about $19) monthly on a pay-as-you-go arrangement; otherwise, the phone can be had for as little as zilch if you sign up for a monthly plan. It'll work as a broadband dongle, too, which we think officially makes this thing oodles more useful than even the most capable of WiFi phones, skivvies or otherwise.
[Via
Tech Digest]
posted Aug 20th 2008 6:30AM
why no front facing cam?
would have been okay if they add it, wouldn't it?
I have yet to see a single human being actually use the forward-facing camera on their phone to make a video call. Even 3 seem ambivalent towards the feature these days, after spending God knows how many months trying to convince us that it was The Future, way back when.
Using it for mobile broadband access would be neat, I'm not sure how that'd work as 3 don't support tethering phones otherwise AFAIK. If they charge you at their normal PAYG mobile broadband rates then it's £10 ($20) for 1GB, £15 ($30) for 3GB, or £25 ($50) for 7GB.