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iPhone or SkypePod?

Engadget picked it up from The Wireless Weblog. Apparently Skype had enough of dealing with reluctant phone companies and hesitant network vendors:

Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom announced the company plans to put out a VoWLAN phone, which will allow customers to connect to the Skype voice network via WiFi. Not too many specifics were given, other than that it’ll be out later this year. Let’s hope they inject it with a little more style than Vonage’s retro-cell aesthetic employed on the UTStarcom F1000, their first offering in the WiFi phone department.
phone.jpgTo pull this off, what Skype needs to do right is simple and twofolded. One, they need to make an excellent phone with seamless software/hardware integration. Just like the iPod . Two, they need to be able to create an enormous hype within three to four years, just like the iPod did. Hold on a second.—"Mr. Jobs? There is a phone call for you from Mr. Niklas Zennstrom?.."