More mobi-fi news — Skype to work on N800

By Vivek | January 9th, 2007 at 12:51 pm ET         

Nokia today announced at CES that it will work with Skype to build mobile version of IM/Voice client for Nokia N800. Nokia N800, which comes as an update for N770, was officially launched at CES yesterday. I had written about this upcoming news last year/last month.

Making Skype work on the tablet is a great idea but a difficult sell ’cause of the prohibitive price($350) of the tablet. I can’t imagine everyone rushing to get N800 just for Skype. Gizmo had done similar integration for N770 last year, but we have yet to see any stats on the uptake or the count of people using it for serious calling. Broad device support is what is required from Skype to better compete with upstarts like Fring, Truphone, and Gizmo who already have 1+ year lead in development of the technology.

Links:
Nokia Press Release