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.
Hell yes! A Nokia WiBree headset would be awesome. Wireless FTW!
Now that I’m reading the WiBree specs I don’t think it can handle voice too well
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 is into SIP.
Alessandro
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 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
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.