Ben Reichelt’s Weblog

It has taken all the willpower I have to not order this Skype phone. 
This phone is effin’ awesome, its made by LinkSys who worked with Skype
to develop it.  There is a great review of the phone at the VOIP blog. 
My buddy Mike bought a Skype phone that he uses when hes at home and
has been very happy with it.  I would love to have a cordless
Skype phone at home to replace the crappy cell reception that I get in
my home, plus talking on a cell phone sucks.  The phone is small
and the face of it gets all hot after you talk for 5 minutes, I much
prefer talking on a real sized phone.

I’m looking forward to the day when cities are allowed to have WiMax
installed city-wide. I think when that happens we will see Skype
cell phones becoming extremely popular.  If people think that
Skype is a disruptive technology now, wait till regular cell phones
start getting trumped by Skype phones that people can use anywhere, not
just at home.  As more people adopt Skype the cost will only go
down from its already-super-cheap price of  ~$.02 a minute worldwide to any landline or cell phone and free
to call to other Skype users.  The one thing that I do worry about
with Ebay’s purchase of Skype is that Skype users will have to start
listening to a 30 second commercial before they can place a call or
something, I hope that doesn’t happen, I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

The reason I can’t pull the trigger on the phone now is that Erin
and I have plenty of other things to spend $100 on.  Its now
become the first item on my Christmas list, although when I asked
Erin for a wireless keyboard and mouse two years ago, I was scolded for
asking for such a “dumb, geeky” gift, some things just don’t change