3 launches Skypephone S2

by Chris Ziegler, posted Aug 20th 2008 at 6:30AM

Hold up just a second, this is more than your average WiFi-powered Skype handset for yakking it up while you're wandering around the abode in your skivvies. In fact, it's none other than the follow-on to 3's Skypephone of last year -- the aptly-named Skypephone S2 -- offering HSDPA data, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 50MB of memory with a microSD slot for plenty more, and pretty much all the Skype support you can handle (hence the name, we suppose). Skype-to-Skype calls are completely free from the phone, and the Skype service can be kept active by adding £10 (about $19) monthly on a pay-as-you-go arrangement; otherwise, the phone can be had for as little as zilch if you sign up for a monthly plan. It'll work as a broadband dongle, too, which we think officially makes this thing oodles more useful than even the most capable of WiFi phones, skivvies or otherwise.

[Via Tech Digest]

Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Hutchison 3

Tags: 3, amoi, hutchison 3, Hutchison3, s2, skype, skypephone, skypephone s2, SkypephoneS2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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iyasnih @ Aug 20th 2008 10:58AM

why no front facing cam?
would have been okay if they add it, wouldn't it?

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sockatume @ Aug 20th 2008 2:50PM

I have yet to see a single human being actually use the forward-facing camera on their phone to make a video call. Even 3 seem ambivalent towards the feature these days, after spending God knows how many months trying to convince us that it was The Future, way back when.

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sockatume @ Aug 20th 2008 2:56PM

Using it for mobile broadband access would be neat, I'm not sure how that'd work as 3 don't support tethering phones otherwise AFAIK. If they charge you at their normal PAYG mobile broadband rates then it's £10 ($20) for 1GB, £15 ($30) for 3GB, or £25 ($50) for 7GB.