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Skype for the Municator? Already being demonstrated.

April 23, 2006 01:48 PM

Topics: Business | Skype杂志 | ebay | skype | skypejournal | voip

What happens when you ship an Internet-ready PC for $100-150? Distribution that matches all other PCs combined. What's more, this could reach a generation of people who would never have mobile phones, let alone full-screen Internet access. If Skype can negotiate bundling its free software on those computers, Skype could become the default telephony for 100s of millions of families.

Macau's YellowSheepRiver showed their $146 Municator (YSR-639) at CeBIT. It's a desktop WiFi (no keyboard, mouse, display) available now, running the THINIX 3.0 OS (a Linux variant). The One Laptop per Child project is slated for $100 all inclusive, and will be based on RedHat Linux.

Skype is available for many flavors of Linux, not a technical leap. Is this market worthy of some bizdev and engineering effort? I think so.

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Posted by: Uri L. at April 23, 2006 3:55 PM

Definitely agree - thanks for the videos link, it looks cool!

Posted by: freechelmi at April 24, 2006 1:54 AM

Ohh !

That would be horrible if skype was preloaded on This child's laptop, com'on !

Think ! What if one day , ebay just decide to stop the skype server ? children got addicted to it but they could not communicate anymore ?

And think about the fact tha a lot of bandwith is used to relay calls for people that are http only , so very low DSL lines would get full ...

No way to use something else than an open standard like SIP or IAX in this project..

Com'on , It's time to say goodbye to skype ...

Posted by: Paul Jardine at April 24, 2006 5:57 PM

I haven't checked but I got the impression that Skype for Linux (and Mac) was falling behind? Are those versions (Mac and Linux) up to date with features?
Given that divergence has started, I think the gulf is likely to get larger rather than smaller...
I like the Municator though, perhaps it can run Asterisk instead?

Posted by: freechelmi at April 29, 2006 8:47 AM

If it was runing http://ekiga.org or any SIP compliant software , it would be in accordance with the purpose of this project ..... isn't it so obvious ?

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