Cellular Technology

Cell phone to double as Net phone | CNET News.com:

"Cell phones that double as Internet phones will become available in the United States, Europe and Asia by March, the manufacturer said Thursday.

Distributed by Dubai-based developer i-Mate, the $850 PDA2K and PDA2 cell phones come equipped with voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a software that shifts phone services from the highly regulated and taxed traditional local phone networks onto the unregulated Internet. The VoIP software comes from Skype, a popular Europe-based Net phone provider."

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