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WiFi phone taps into home wireless broadband nets – Cordless phones, your days are numbered.

An emerging class of WiFi phones lets you tap into your wireless home network to make calls over the Internet, without the snap, crackle or pop of a cordless. Indeed, it might one day make cellular phones (can you hear me now?) obsolete, as well.

The new F1000 WiFi phone from UTStarcom will be available in October through Internet phone provider Vonage. It provides a glimpse of the future, where people will one day be able to use the high-speed data networks springing up in airports, coffee houses and copy shops to make phone calls, not just check their e-mail.

But for now, the WiFi phone is the perfect accessory for homes with wireless broadband access. However, these phones won’t be much use outside your home or office until wireless providers decide to make it as easy to place a phone call as it is to check a sports score on the Web.

It’s not hard to imagine the multitasker’s vision of bliss: sitting sipping a latte at Starbucks, checking e-mail on the laptop and talking on the WiFi phone.

By Dawn C. Chmielewski

Mercury News

Full Story: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/12624741.htm

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