SkypeIn in beta

2005-03-12 15:37:11
Skype’s PR peeps are blasting out press releases about how SkypeOut (which lets you use Skype’s VoIP software to make cheap calls to the regular phone lines) has finally reached one million users, but we’re way more interested in the more stealthy news that they’re testing a new beta which supports SkypeIn, which lets people with regular phone lines call you. A year of SkypeIn will set you back €30, and so far the only phone numbers you can score are from France, the UK, the US, and Hong Kong, but you don’t actually have to live in one of those countries to get one of those numbers and they do throw in a free subscription to Skype Voicemail. So let’s see…we can get one of those new EV-DO capable Pocket PC Phones (like the XV6600 or the Samsung SGH-i730—or even chance it with an EDGE-capable handset), sign up for both SkypeIn and SkypeOut, and then cut back to some barebones bucket of minutes? Sticking it to the Man might make paying through the nose for a data plan almost worth it.