Nokia 6136 combines GSM/WiFi
Nokia is jumping on the UMA (unlicensed
mobile access) bandwagon with the 6136, a GSM phone that also works with LANs over WiFi. The phone, a clamshell,
quad-band GSM model with a 1.3 megapixel camera, will be out during the second quarter, and will initially be available
on the Orange network. The phone is primarily targeted at corporate customers who can deploy the phone for use both as a
cellphone for external use, and as a VoIP phone within company facilities.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Seb @ Feb 13th 2006 9:34AM
What is taking *so* long for handset manufacturers to roll out dual wi-fi / gsm phones? I mean are they so afraid to piss off their network-operator-buyers? The world needs more of those asap (and I'll be the first one to wave goodbye to my $*00s mobile phone bill. After all, I am only paying for the luxury of moving around.... in my wifi covered office/home.
I bet you that a lot of people out there do not actually need the whole fancy gsm towers infrastructure more than 5% of the time, but it's nice to have when on the road, so these dual handsets are the way to go. Go Nokia go!
PhoneDude @ Feb 13th 2006 5:00PM
I can tell you from experience, that the handsets are NOT ready for full UMA usage. The handsets that I have used in testing from Samsung and Motorola can't even hand off between WiFi, and GSM....and then they reboot constantly. I saw one handset (Samsung) reboot itself for an entire hour of the meeting I was in...I hope Nokia gets thiers right!
Daydalaus @ Feb 14th 2006 8:11AM
Sorry, Uma Phones only works with Uma enabled networks (it connect to a special BTS via Internet). The WiFi is crippled, so we have to forget about skype.