More people placing phone calls over the Internet, Microsoft's Skype acquisition to boost that trend
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If the trend continues, "phone calls" in the not-so-distant future might boil down to voice or video chat transfer over Internet connection on your convergence device, be it a smartphone, a tablet, or something else, giving those rusty communication satellites flying over our heads a much needed break.
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The fun part will begin when instead of cell phone numbers we are all known with our chat avatars, although we know people for whom this might not be that funny.
source: PewInternet via WTOP
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6 Comments
2. Droid_X_Doug posted on 31 May 2011, 14:53 1
And for those of you who think that MS will enhance Skype for non-MS environments, I have some land on the Moon that you might be interested in. MS is doing everything they can to get into the smartphone market. All of the new Skype features will only be released on WP7+.
Google and Apple will have to build out their competing applications.
5. corps1089 posted on 31 May 2011, 19:21 0
Just like they are keeping all of bing's features for WP7?
10. Lucas777 posted on 01 Jun 2011, 00:05 1
ya honestly u r stupid... did they release photosynth for wp7? what about the bing apps? what god damn office? they arnt just on wp7... microsoft is smart, and although i like mac better, they will dow ahtever to make windows and wp7 have the most market share possible, but they wont pass on an oppurtunity to develop elsewhere
8. KIANO posted on 31 May 2011, 21:08 0
The rise of VOIP dominant communication is imminent.
Before that it was okay to use VOICE without text message. Then SMS & MMS overpowered VOICE. Then DATA overpowered all before.
Voice, text & chat messaging and video chat all done via internet connection.
Skype will continues and expect more companies in the hot VOIP market.
9. jtech (unregistered) posted on 31 May 2011, 23:44 0
Damn phone arena you have to stop all these stupid fucking comments about shoes and shit! ^^^
