Charles upset Nokia hasn’t stepped up to the plate and released a Skype phone
By Stefan Constantinescu on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 6:22 pm PST In Telecommunications
Uh, I think this kind of toy should have been built by a phone
company who can make amazing phones. Gosh, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) really was sleeping
here. I know we could make a better WiFi phone.But, it’s flying off the shelves. I think Christensen would say this is due to non-consumption - putting up with something crummy because it fills a burning burning need.
Source: Lifeblog
Well what do you expect, Nokia is pushing SIP so hard I doubt they would want to support a competitor. I do however think you’re correct, it’s a shame Nokia couldn’t have slapped something together that is better than the current garbage on the market. What I want to know is why hasn’t Nokia released a simple USB handset that I can hook up to my laptop and use to make calls … regardless of weather it’s Skype, AIM, MSN, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk, or Yahoo. Better yet, how better to promote WiBree than to make a WiBree solution for PC’s! Let people choose whatever bloody VoIP solution they want, but let them use a wicked WiBree headset that lasts forever on a charge. I would love something like that just because I would also use it for Speech to Text purposes.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Hell yes! A Nokia (NYSE: NOK) WiBree headset would be awesome. Wireless FTW!
December 11th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Now that I’m reading the WiBree specs I don’t think it can handle voice too well
December 11th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Ciao
I think people are a bit confused. SIP is not another VoIP. SIP is a Session Initiation Protocol and is used to initiate a communication which can be VoIP but can be also Video and much more. SIP is the protocol behind 3G communication, that’s one reason Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is into SIP.
Alessandro
December 12th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Hi,
Skype is built on Skype VOIP protocol (TM). This is a closed protocol. Therefore they would have to pay Skype for the pleasure of building it.
Also, whats to say that Skype wouldn’t change their minds on this later?
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is right to build hardware on *open* standards, like SIP.
SIP is VoIP, Skype is P2P Voice over Internet.
Its nice to have, but I would much prefer a VoIP enabled Nokia WiFi phone, like the E61.
thanks
bernard
NB: My own thoughts…like my music taste
December 15th, 2006 at 12:13 am
Then you step into the whole open standards vs popular standards debate. It’s like Linux people trying to push ogg when the world uses MP3. I still think Nokia should do a Skype phone.