Skype announced a cooperation with Nokia, as the company’s largest mobile device manufacturer in the world. With this cooperation the property of Skype VoIP application will ditanamkan on Nokia mobile phone output. Nokia itself plans to include Skype application on the smart phone in the high-end them, the series N. N97 mobile phone that will be out in June 2009 will be the first Nokia mobile phone equipped with Skype.
Skype will have integration with the N97 in the list of addresses, allowing users to see if the Skype friends are online. This also allows the user to use the facilities Skype instant messaging directly from the address list of N97. Most important is that N97 users will be able to make phone calls cheaper or even free of charge via the Internet while on the 3G network or hotspot / Wi-Fi. Phone connection between Skype users can be done without cost / free, while SkypeOut service allows users to make calls from Skype to regular phone network with low cost, both locally and internationally.
Nokia is not the only vendor who announced the agreement on cooperation with Skype in the Mobile World Congress. On Monday, Sony Ericsson announced the panel will provide a Skype phone in Xperia1 yag-based Windows Mobile.
Cooperation would be good news for mobile phone users, especially for those who likes to travel abroad or have relatives in other countries. Make international calls is of course the cost of exhaust, but now with the presence of Skype application fee can be pressed. The mobile phone vendors own happy because they get a premium product added value and buyers can be expected with tergiur facilities offered through Skype. Hope the future hopefully penetration Skype to vendor-vendor mobile phone can be more intensive, so again we can get a cheap mobile phone call costs are cheap. (via CNET)
To you who are not steadfast, already have some application that allows you to make free Skype calls through Fring (iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows Mobile and Symbian) or Nimbuzz, although still a form of application independed that does not have strong integration with the phone .
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