Flying VoIP (VoIP on airplanes)

The airline Virgin America has equipped its airplanes with WiFi Internet connection, Skype™ has been successfully used to make a live videocall with a famous american TV show.
The service offered by Virgin America is not for free and the fee is variable from about 6 dollars to about 13 dollars.
The videocalls by Skype™ are blocked by default to maintain a quiet and restful cabin environment, anyhow you can use the GoGo service to interface Skype and use just text messages.

Skype™ On Cellphone

Skype™ release now its popular VoIP software also for a lot of cellphones like Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, the complete list of compatible models is on the Skype™ website, in the download page.
The download happen simply inserting your cellphone number, then you will receive an SMS containing the download link for the application.
If your cellphone integrate a Wi-Fi connection, you can use Skype™ with every available Wi-Fi LAN.

ASUS Videophone

ASUS presents the first videophone Skype™ certified, the videophone ASUS AiGuru SV1 Skype is equipped with a 7 inch color LCD monitor, a 640x480 pixels webcam, a microphone and a speaker, the connection to the internet it's by Wi-Fi 802.11 b and g or by the classic cabled LAN 10/100 Mbit.
In summary it is a good product that doesn't need a pc connection to work, in fact it's enough to connect it to a wireless or cabled router, it offer all the benefits of Skype™ phone calls and free calls from and to Skype™ users; it will be commercialized starting from the next october.

Even The New iPod Will Have Its VoIP

Even the new born in Apple house, the well-known multimedia portable player iPod, available on the App Store and very similar to his brother iPhone, will have its VoIP functionality, thanks to the new earphones with microphone it will be possible to make VoIP calls by the TruPhone application and the integrated Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g), TruPhone is available for free on the App Store.

New Wi-Fi Standard: 802.11r

Good news for mobile VoIP, the IEEE announce the new 802.11r standard that allows the change of connection between Wi-Fi Access Points without loss of connections or delays in reconnections, just 50 milliseconds for the roaming between one access point and another one, positive situation for whom that use mobile VoIP, no more interrupted calls while you're moving, no more lost words or sentences during a conversation.