By David Ponce
This is an interesting tidbit floating out of CES this year. Netgear has announced a Skype mobile phone, which would allow you to place free calls (or cheap ones with SkypeOut) whenever a Wifi hotspot in range. Simply insert your Skype username and password as soon as you turn the phone on, and you’re good to go.
It also would work as a regular mobile phone whenever there are no hotspots available.
Go Skype (and Netgear).
There’s no word on price or availability, though you can sign up to be alerted to when it is.
[Netgear Skype Phone] VIA [Gizmologia]
Update: Hrmph… So it looks like I might have jumped the gun on this one. After actually reading the material, it looks as though this phone will not work as a regular cellphone. It only works when there’s a hotspot in range. As Julian in the comments point out, that would actually have been pretty awesome. As it is, it’s only kind of cool
