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I've never found Skype to be consistently as good as a wired or cellular network. I regularly get drop-outs and disconnects. So unless other people have much lower standards, or much better luck with Skype, or a VOIP with much better quality of service than Skype, I don't see how it's "good enough" to replace conventional phone calls.
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... would the next Maemo device be usable as a phone despite not having access to a conventional voice service?
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First I must admit to having no personal experience using VoIP through mobile phones. Some/many networks also ban VoIP data connections or sell separate (Skype?) usage packages.
Pressing a bright (unless it autosenses usage) LCD screen against your oily face (when wireless headsets are inconvenient or unavailable)?
I'm not sure if Krisse is looking for positive or negative reinforcement to this idea, but certainly with the right accessories it could be done.
Stationary VoIP users probably outnumber mobile phone VoIP users by a healthy margin. Personally I'd also think the VoIP ecosystem would be better if it was done via standard protocols (SIP?) instead of a single corporation (like eBay's Skype).
Localized 3G data plans can also be murderous for those who frequently travel abroad.
If a somewhat N8x0-sized tablet was my only mobile voice device,
At the same time, more and more people are able to get unlimited data for a fixed monthly fee, and non-fixed data charges are going down too (in the EU we're also about to get fairly low mobile data price caps to speed up drops in prices).
The upshot of all this is, will VOIP through mobile data be good enough to replace conventional phone calls? If so, would the next Maemo device be usable as a phone despite not having access to a conventional voice service?
And if many people did use VOIP through their SIM card, would that overload the phone networks' data capacity quite quickly?
Any thoughts on this?