Just got Iskoot (
http://www.iskoot.com/index.htm) installed on my buddy's
Verizon Treo 650 and Razr V3 up and running. It feeds your Palm phone
all the Skype data and control to their servers, which allow you to make
Skype calls through your cellphone without leaving your home computer on
like Vox for Skype requires. Iskoot is free, at the moment, while the
beta testing goes on and they're going to want a monthly fee to run the
servers at some point but don't say how much or when right now....
To call someone on Skype, you simply click on them on the Iskoot Skype
contact list, just like you would Skype on any other computer. It calls
their servers through the cellphone system, not the forbidden data
system, and you use your minutes to make the Skype call, just like any
other call...free on unlimited N/W, of course. The only thing that comes
over the cellphone data system is Skype contact list data and Skype
commands to the servers, which act as intermediaries to Skype's servers,
I suppose. That might be direct, though, as Iskoot is a Skype partner.
This will let you make cheap overseas Skype calls, bypassing the
cellphone's horrid LD charges outside your country, without violating the
cellphone company's attempts to stop it with anti-use clauses on their
cellphone internet services.
I can't tell any difference between an Iskoot Skype Out call to my Alltel
cellphone and a direct Verizon to Alltel cellphone-to-cellphone call
between the same phones in quality and latency, always put up as a reason
not to use nearly free VoIP services from your cellphone by the cellphone
company defenders.
I called a friend's Skype computer in Lithuania from the Treo 650 and it
sounded just like he does on my Skype computer on broadband. Works
great...temporarily free....a win-win-situation for now.
Just FYI if you have a phone on the Iskoot hardware list on any carrier:
Supported Handsets
Motorola™
RAZR V3
SLVR L7
PEBL
v557
Nokia
6021
6102
6600
6680
6682
6030
Palm®
Treo 650
Treo 700p
Sony Ericsson™
v600i
w600i
Nokia E Series
Another Christmas toy to play with....(c;
Larry
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