Mobilemag reports that the Palm OS will soon have a piece of VoIP software called MobiVoIP which will allow origination of Vonage-style VoIP calls from a Palm device. My opinion is that the service won’t earn much money and people will just ask “why”? I mean, the only devices with enough bandwidth to support the voice applcation are going to be voice-enabled devices anyway. Why even bother either with VoIP? The place VoIP shines is where data access is cheap and plentiful, and it isn’t either with Palm devices (or PocketPCs). Of course, WiFi is cheap and quick, but I would think that the vast majority of voice users need more mobility than what can be afforded by WiFi.
March 10, 2006