Netgear's SPH101 - the world's first Skype WiFi phone - made its UK debut yesterday afternoon at a products-showcase for over a dozen of Skype's hardware partners.
The Netgear is about the same size as most full-featured mobile phones and lets you to make and receive Skype calls from any wireless router or access point - with no need at all for a PC.
Naturally, it has phone books built in for Skype contacts and it also offers all the features you'd typically get when using Skype with a computer.
Skype sophisticates would give their right arm to own one - though the price they'll be expected to pay when it arrives in the UK, hopefully in August, will be considerably less onerous - around £140.
More in this HEXUS.headline - and expect additional images to appear there during this morning.
Update - Price of the Netgear has been changed from £110 to £140.
I'd written this piece at a time at night when I couldn't double check the price with Netgear (and I had my doubts that what I'd written down in my notebook was correct) but the company got back to me this morning and said the price I should have quoted was £140. Apologies for any confusion.


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The XDA series have wifi and you can run Skype on those, AND they do normal phone calls as well 

