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Skype on a cell phone

Nokia N800 cell offers Skype calling

Candace Lombardi
In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET.
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Nokia has signed a partnership with Skype to offer Internet calling for its new N800 Internet Tablet smart phone.

While the phone will be immediately available in the U.S. and some European countries, Nokia announced Monday at CES, the Skype service will not be available until June. People can stay connected until then with the N800's instant messaging feature over WLAN, in addition to regular cell phone calls.

The N800 smart phone has 128MB RAM and 256MB of flash memory with two memory cards slots that will each take SD, MicroSD, MiniSD, MMC and RS-MMC cards of up to 2GB.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
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The silver and black phone comes loaded with a screen keyboard, a media player, an RSS feeder, Internet radio, Bluetooth, the Opera 8 Web browser, a PDF viewer and a USB port, as well as the usual calculator and file managing utilities.

The N800 offers 3.5 hours of battery time, according to Nokia, with up to 12 days of standby. The device is a likely competitor to the Cingular 8525, which also offers WLAN.