Boingo Wireless has announced Boingo Mobile, the first global Wi-Fi Internet service designed for Wi-Fi-enabled mobile phones and devices.
Boingo Mobile lets users enjoy access the Internet using their Windows Mobile handsets over Boingo’s hot spots for a monthly flat rate of U.S. $7.95.
Voice over WiFi can also be utilized. Belkin’s Wi-Fi Phone for Skype ($199, right) has Skype software built-in.
The free Boingo Mobile software can be downloaded for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphones or Pocket PC devices. It automatically provides connection and roaming authentication to more than 150 different Wi-Fi network operators worldwide for $7.95 per month. Boingo Mobile provides high-speed Internet access at airports, hotels, restaurants and convention centers worldwide.
Boingo Mobile subscribers can use the Wi-Fi access for all Internet-enabled services and applications on their mobile phones, as well as make wireless VoIP calls. Additional features include push email, sending SMS, watching online news or video, performing photo or video uploads and downloads, searching the Internet, accessing Intranet services, as well as other network-based uses from their mobile phones.
First announced at the 3G Global Congress a few weeks ago in Spain, the service is said to provide connectivity to more than ten thousands hot spots in more than 60 countries around the world including France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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How widely can these phones be used in the states?
And in the state of Illinois, specifically?
8 bucks a month sounds great but not if the phones can be used in 10% or less of the country.
(The 10% figure is a wild guess.)
Left by Springtown83 on February 28th, 2007