London Ninja

I finally got a new mobile. I had an old mobile that I was using here the past 6 months that has been excruciatingly old. It’s fat, slow, and just plain fugly. Texting was never fun on that thing.

In continually pursuing the easiest way to contact friends and family at home, the opportunity came up over the Christmas period to get a 3 Skype Phone, an innovative integration of 3G and Since becoming a Brit and foregoing the debaucle that is American presidential race. Hussein Osama, Hilary, Romney, Giuliani, Ron Paul?…I will allow anyone seeking refuge a week on my futon to get out of America…but I digress….phones…right. I’ve been using Skype extensively to talk with some friends and my family and it’s been great. In particular, Skype video chat is pretty amazing. I even purchased a shiney new webcam to get better quality video and so I don’t have to use a headset when I talk. I also broadcast live streaming video in nothing but my knickers for a small monthly charge to subscribing members.

The 3 Skypephone is basically a phone that allows you persistent connection with Skype and full phone integration to be able to call and receive calls with anyone Skype for a low monthly cost. Introduced in October, it allows one to IM/talk with anyone else that is on Skype for £10/month minimum top up on your Pay As You Go plan. That £10 is used for minutes and texts. That’s great. I mean, if you have a Windows Mobile or other platform that supports a Skype client, you already had this functionality but you also probably pay a lot more than £10/month for your service.

I just activated the Skypephone today and gotta say it is a nice change to actually have a phone that can do stuff like take pictures and play mp3s. The Skype part also works very well. You just sign in to your Skype account and you can IM/call anyone that’s online. Since this is the way I chat with my folks in the US, it’s a nice service to have. They are supposedly going to bring in SkypeIn and SkypeOut features to allow you to call and receive international calls with cheap Skype rates. You can even use it to call Londonninja Inc to subscribe to our streaming video feeds. It’s worth every pence, mi laddy.