On Friday 06 July 2007 00:39:57 Ryan wrote: > Let's keep an eye on this story and make sure we get OpenMoko included > in the process! Many people on these lists have requested and talked > about this feature, but the fact that it would be very difficult > without support from the telcos has frequently come up. Here's our > opportunity! > > Sent to you by Ryan via Google Reader: T-Mobile Announces WiFi Meshing > Cellphone via Slashdot by Zonk on Jul 05, 2007 tregetour writes with a > link to a New York Times article penned by David Pogue about a quiet > announcement last week by T-Mobile. It has nothing to do with the > iPhone, but it could still be a welcome revolution for users plagued by > high cellphone bills. "Here's the basic idea. If you're willing to pay > $10 a month on top of a regular T-Mobile voice plan, you get a special > cellphone. When you're out and about, it works like any other phone; > calls eat up your monthly minutes as usual. But when it's in a Wi-Fi > wireless Internet hot spot, this phone offers a huge bargain: all your > calls are free. You use it and dial it the same as always -- you still > get call hold, caller ID, three-way calling and all the other features > -- but now your voice is carried by the Internet rather than the > cellular airwaves." He goes on to explain further benefits of the > system, and describes the wireless routers that the company will be > pushing with the service. The only thing missing: an estimate of when > it will hit stores. > Read more of this story at Slashdot. >
hmm, this brings up something i have had in the back of my head when thinking of mobile phones with wifi and similar, a modern day two way radio ;) as in, some way for two or more devices thats within range of each other to exchange data using a ad-hoc network. hell it may be that some of the end devices are not within range of each other but via a third or more device can leapfrog their transmissions to the other party. as in, you have a push-to-talk like system but it uses existing wifi setups or can do ad-hoc setups on the fly. could be built into some kind of voip system so that can can have it either bonuce the traffic of a server somewhere on the net or send it directly to the other party if within range. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
