DaninChina
07-26-2005, 07:26 PM
Cool News blurb about the Moto A910.
The big question on my mind is: is it skype-compatible?
I recall hearing before (on mobileburn?) about Motorola and skype talking together before to produce compatible handsets - could this be the first one?
I'd be interested to know. It sure would suck if skype ended up being some sort of "carrier-dependent" function...(that is some how 5 times as expensive as usual :D )
But then again, if the phone is running a Linux OS, then I'd also expect that it wouldn't be hard to make a work-around for that...
Apparently it isn't quadband (according to phonescoop.com), however...that sucks; I guess Moto doesn't see a need to make that standard - but you'd think that a lot of travelling business types (who'd use quadband) would also be into this...
Could be really cool; only thing that doesn't quite work for me (personally) is that wi-fi is practically non-existent in China...(some stupid gov't BS about trying to impose their own standard)...but that's okay - it would be awesome to have this phone to use to make skype calls when I'm in an area with a hotspot...
The big question on my mind is: is it skype-compatible?
I recall hearing before (on mobileburn?) about Motorola and skype talking together before to produce compatible handsets - could this be the first one?
I'd be interested to know. It sure would suck if skype ended up being some sort of "carrier-dependent" function...(that is some how 5 times as expensive as usual :D )
But then again, if the phone is running a Linux OS, then I'd also expect that it wouldn't be hard to make a work-around for that...
Apparently it isn't quadband (according to phonescoop.com), however...that sucks; I guess Moto doesn't see a need to make that standard - but you'd think that a lot of travelling business types (who'd use quadband) would also be into this...
Could be really cool; only thing that doesn't quite work for me (personally) is that wi-fi is practically non-existent in China...(some stupid gov't BS about trying to impose their own standard)...but that's okay - it would be awesome to have this phone to use to make skype calls when I'm in an area with a hotspot...