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...chance to slash the cost of their international calls. For a fee of $1 per week, Rebtel users will be given local mobile numbers for each person they want to call abroad. Once connected, the recipient hangs up, redials a local number sent to his or her phone by text message, and is immediately reconnected via a broadband line. "This has definitely got the potential to upset the international-calling model," says Matt Hatton, a London-based analyst with consultants Yankee Group, who thinks the biggest loser could be international calls from fixed-line phones. VoIP is already making...
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Mobile-phone texting has evolved into an essential form of communication - a brief e-mail on the run. But for those who find texting cumbersome, a quicker solution[an error occurred while processing this directive] has arrived. Woburn, Massachusetts-based VoiceSignal has created VoiceMode, which allows mobile-phone users "to say it, see it and send it." It takes approximately one minute and 75 taps of tiny keys to create and send this text message: "Leave tix at box office - running late." Dictate the same text with a VoiceMode-enabled phone in seconds...
...although Hotmail can only be retrieved through the device's web browser. The browser, incidentally, left me unimpressed - especially with the chaotic way it rendered such important sites as MySpace, IMDB and Time.com. But when you combine three IM accounts and multiple e-mail streams, topped off with unlimited text messaging, you won't have time to surf the web anyhow...
...This reassuring feeling only grew when I looked over the Sidekick monthly rates. A typical T-Mobile voice plan is 1,000 minutes for $40, adding $20 for unlimited e-mail, text messaging, web surfing and instant messaging. That's $60 per month, $25 per month cheaper than Verizon Wireless's starter plan for the Motorola Q. Sure, the Q has a sleek form and a very fast connection to the web. But the Sidekick has a friendlier interface, not to mention that je ne sais quoi we call Paris...