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VoIP calls on WiFi enabled smartphones Hiro 01-30-2006
Posted by Hiro on January 30, 2006, 10:13 am
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Hi

Does microsoft have any plans on updating Windows Mobile 5.0 with
integrated VoIP calls and dialling? It seems the most logical thing
considering there are wifi enabled handsets and wifi is not simply a
"data" protocol anymore. The number dialling UI to enable VoIP calls
should be the same, or at least seamlessly integrated, with the UI for
making any voice call on a WM 5.0 handset.....

Is anyone here aware of microsofts feature roadmaps and can estimate
when such a feature should be available?

Cheers
Hiro


Posted by Tony A. on January 30, 2006, 12:53 pm
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Hiro wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does microsoft have any plans on updating Windows Mobile 5.0 with
> integrated VoIP calls and dialling? It seems the most logical thing
> considering there are wifi enabled handsets and wifi is not simply a
> "data" protocol anymore. The number dialling UI to enable VoIP calls
> should be the same, or at least seamlessly integrated, with the UI
for
> making any voice call on a WM 5.0 handset.....
>
> Is anyone here aware of microsofts feature roadmaps and can estimate
> when such a feature should be available?

Shortly after hell freezes over, if Microsoft's telco customers have
their way, I would imagine.



Posted by Hiro on January 31, 2006, 7:55 am
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surely Microsofts enterprise customers outnumber and outmuscle their
telco customers.... or perhaps its just a waiting game for Skype and
others to trailblaze the market before MS gobbles up them (or their
market) to make the offering part of its collective i.e. resistance is
futile.... wonder if any highly paid MS strategists roam these newgroup
corridors and can let me know what the giant plans on doing...


Posted by Sven on February 1, 2006, 12:33 am
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No not really. I would guess the majority of enterprise customers are still
contracting phones/services from carriers. What you would have to have is an
enterprise customer, with enough clout to convince a carrier to provide them
with, and support, WiFi enabled Smartphones. I don't think any one customer
is big enough to do that.

--
Sven
MVP - Mobile Devices
> surely Microsofts enterprise customers outnumber and outmuscle their
> telco customers.... or perhaps its just a waiting game for Skype and
> others to trailblaze the market before MS gobbles up them (or their
> market) to make the offering part of its collective i.e. resistance is
> futile.... wonder if any highly paid MS strategists roam these newgroup
> corridors and can let me know what the giant plans on doing...
>



Posted by Chris Jordan on February 1, 2006, 6:13 pm
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At the CES 2006 show at the beginning of January::-

"Philips and Uniden will announced new VOIP-enabled phones that will enable
people to make calls from a cordless handset connected to the Windows Live
Messenger service


> No not really. I would guess the majority of enterprise customers are
> still contracting phones/services from carriers. What you would have to
> have is an enterprise customer, with enough clout to convince a carrier to
> provide them with, and support, WiFi enabled Smartphones. I don't think
> any one customer is big enough to do that.
>
> --
> Sven
> MVP - Mobile Devices
>> surely Microsofts enterprise customers outnumber and outmuscle their
>> telco customers.... or perhaps its just a waiting game for Skype and
>> others to trailblaze the market before MS gobbles up them (or their
>> market) to make the offering part of its collective i.e. resistance is
>> futile.... wonder if any highly paid MS strategists roam these newgroup
>> corridors and can let me know what the giant plans on doing...
>>
>
>



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