Free mobile phone calls (outgoing & incoming) anywhere in the world

Read an article (Cringely Shows How to Get Free Cell Calls) in slashdot which linked me to this:

And speaking of Skype, the dominant computer-to-computer phone application, I received last week an announcement for a product that purports to link Skype to any mobile phone system. This is really interesting, though more as an idea than a product.

This was one of those press releases that gets in its own way. It took me several readings to figure out how the product actually works. It's called the Mobile Skype Cable and comes from a Norwegian company called IPDrum (or will come when it ships in August). The cable connects a mobile phone to your computer. The illustrations all show one phone and one computer, but the power of the system can only be realized if you have at least two phones.

One phone stays at your PC as the interconnect with Skype. I'm hoping the cable also charges the phone, but that, again, isn't made clear. In the simplest case you could probably pick up the phone and use it as a dedicated handset to speak over the Skype network. But the true power of the Mobile Skype Cable comes from having multiple phones and some kind of family billing plan.

Read the entire article at:
A Flash in the Pan