SoonR Talk lets you Skype from your cell

by Evan Blass posted May 8th 2006 at 11:22AM

If you've got a lot of friends overseas but no way to call them when you're away from your Skype-enabled PC, then remote services provider SoonR may have just the solution you've been looking for. Soonr, which currently operates a LogMeIn-type VNC service, has just announced a new app called SoonR Talk that allows you to make Skype calls directly from your cellphone. After installing the software on their home PCs, users simply need to dial in to their home machine through their handset's browser and select a buddy from their Skype list to call, after which the program dials their mobile using SkypeOut and serves as a virtual switchboard for routing the audio. As you've probably figured out already, although the software and service are free, you're essentially double paying on SkypeOut calls made using this technique (Skype costs + wireless minutes), so SoonR Talk seems best for international calling or participating in Skype conference calls.

Filed under: Software

Tags: remote access, remote services, RemoteAccess, RemoteServices, skype, skypeout, soonr, soonr talk, SoonrTalk, vnc, voip

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youness @ Mar 12th 2008 1:17AM

hola

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Song Z Huang @ May 9th 2006 8:12PM

First, let me disclose that I am with SoonR.

Regarding your comment on double charges, this is not the case for many carriers as incoming calls are free in many of their plans. Witness this story http://sifybroadband.techwhack.com/410/free-incoming-mobile-calls/

The charge is usually your SkypeOut call from your PC location to the mobile phone. In most places in the world, that is about $0.02 (US) a minute. That is MUCH cheaper than direct mobile calls overseas.

Another thing to consider is that you can conference multiple users on Skype (in different parts of the world) and still only pay the normal SkypeOut call to your mobile phone. Bottom line is that SoonR Talk ends up being a great deal when you are calling other people using Skype and sitting at their desktop computers running Skype.

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ZOverLord @ Aug 24th 2007 11:27PM

MyToGo for Skype does this using ANY Phone and can use Skype Calling services for both calling your Skype contacts for FREE from any phone as well as to use Skype rates for calling telephone numbers and MyToGo for Skype is FREE. More here:

http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=58

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