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Skype for Pocket PC ramble

My goal is to eliminate my insane cell phone bill and replace it with something that only has the functionality I require. My phone currently allows me be contacted by voice or text anywhere, anytime. Thats awesome, but 80-90% of my time is spent at home or at work with active wireless internet with a majority of my cellular communication being voice. So? How about Skype unlimited US & Canada service. The service includes unlimited outgoing calling to US and Canada, voicemail service, and some Skype credits for texting. There’s an additional fee for an online telephone number so people could call me from a telephone, but out-the-door, its about $6.75 per month. Way better than my 46 dollar cell bill. So I bought an iPAQ RX1955 off eBay. It turns out the thing has only 64MB memory shared between storage and RAM. I got some programs running on it, but I can’t get Skype mobile to use the microphone/speaker that are on it! LAME. So I’m probably going to hawk the thing on eBay and try something else. Thats the tough part of making a cheap monthly service work: you have to be willing to experiment and fiddle until it works well… just like Linux.

Current Mood: 🙁disappointed