According to a press release I received today from Skype, Dell will be bundling Skype with its XPS notebooks, the same notebooks which alread include a built-in broadband access radio and also a built-in webcam for video-conferencing (gee, hasn't Apple been all over that action for a whlie now?). So, fire up your wireless broadband and crank out the Skype calls on yout Dell laptop, if Dell is what you like.
SKYPE TEAMS UP WITH DELL TO MAKE INTERNET CALLING EVEN EASIER
New Dell XPS Mobile Systems can be configured with Skype; Free Internet Voice and Video Calling with Other Skype Users
LUXEMBOURG, May 31, 2006 –Skype and Dell have teamed up to make it easy to stay in touch. Today, Skype, the global Internet communications company, announced an agreement with Dell, the world's largest maker of personal computers, to ship Skype™ software with new Dell™ XPS™ mobile systems – the XPS M1210 and XPS M2010.
The agreement will allow Dell to provide its customers with easy access to Skype's voice and video Internet calling software. Dell will be able to pre-load Skype on the XPS 2010, a unique mobile entertainment system featuring a 20.1-inch high-definition display with integrated webcam. The XPS 1210 can be configured with Skype as part of an optional audio-video communications package that also includes an integrated rotating webcam, noise-isolation earbuds and mobile broadband capability.
"As the leading notebook supplier, Dell is committed to delivering cutting-edge technology that provides voice and video connectivity virtually anywhere," said Brett Faulk, worldwide marketing director, consumer notebooks. "Teaming with Skype, the trend setter in Internet communications, will provide our customers the very best experience when reaching out and staying in touch with friends and family around the world."
"Dell customers will be able to experience the benefits of Skype, optimized for their computing environment. This gives Dell customers a simple way to use the Internet to talk to their friends and family from home, in the office or on-the-go," said Don Albert, Director of Business Development, Skype North America. "Dell represents a new distribution channel for Skype. New products from Dell will complement the breadth of hardware designed for the convenience of Skype callers."
With Skype, customers can talk for as long as they like with other Skype customers across the world without worrying about the cost or the distance of the call. Unveiled today, the Dell XPS M1210 and M2010 are available immediately worldwide.
Dell to hock Skype
Reader Comments
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OLD NEWS.
The student on the campus world learned long ago to download the various IM-with-voice softphones and pony up the usual 10 usdollars credit and then sit and use the universities WiFi and talk.
The rest of the world has passed YOU by while you're still THINKING you found "something".
Posted at 3:51AM on Jun 6th 2006 by R.W.
3. I think you mean "Dell to hawk Skype"....
To hock something is to pawn it.
Posted at 11:38PM on Jun 6th 2006 by earle
4. There's something off about Skype. I don't think it will be successful. Sorry.
I think this whole free-calls deal is a ploy to damage the Vonage IPO.
Skype is just jealous they'll never be able to pull off appearing like a consumer home-phone service to the average american.
Posted at 10:36PM on Jun 16th 2006 by VoIP Reviews
5. Skype I beleive is a more international play.
Neal Saferstein
Posted at 2:27AM on Jun 17th 2006 by Neal Saferstein
1. Skype will dominate VOIP
Neal Saferstein
Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 3rd 2006 by Neal Saferstein