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The first few minutes of the joint Verizon Wireless and Skype press conference was loaded with jokes from the two guys pictures above, John Stratton, Chief Marketing Officer of Verizon on the left, Josh Silverman, CEO Skype on the right. They’ve said that this news has leaked multiple times over the past 12 months, but no one believed it because it’s so unlike Verizon to announce something like this.
What’s essentially happening is that Verizon worked together with Skype to create an application called Skype mobile. It’s going to become available in March for various BlackBerry devices, and both the Droid and the Eris. Skype to Skype calls will be free, Skype calls done to regular numbers will use Verizon’s current 3G network, and that’s it really, nothing really ooo or ahhh to report.
http://phones.verizonwireless.com/skypemobile/ should be going live by the end of the day with more details.
Update: The press release that was issued out to this, huge waste of ink and trees by the way, was just posted on the internet. Headline edited too, Verizon didn’t say anything about preinstalling the application, or maybe they did, I don’t know. I left the press conference soon after I realized it wasn’t interesting. Say 5, maybe 10 minutes.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
