This incredibly small figure could lead to consumer products retailing for around $50 to $60 - which is under half of most of today’s internet-ready ‘kitchen radio’ type products. Designed to operate without a PC, the Iona radio technology is as accessible and easy to use as today’s portable FM radios. [...]
“Traditional radios offer listeners the choice of relatively few stations that have to appeal to a very broad audience. Internet radio gives listeners access to many thousands, catering for very specific tastes from the mainstream to the exotic. Internet radio also allows you to tune in to your home town station wherever you happen to be in the world,” adds Smith. “Combined with the existing infrastructure of Wi-Fi and broadband, we believe that the internet radio market is poised to explode as soon as the right product price/performance point is achieved…”
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This guy’s reader owes you royalties.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/...03/the-wandering-smartphone.html#more
This is worth checking out:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/skype_f...hone_doesnt_bode_well_for_at_t_telcos
Its easy to imagine large scale wifi phone networks at a pricepoint much lower than cell service, especially for urban customers. Its also easy to picture this integrating with your idea of truly local ISPs.
I had this conversation about skype not on even the iphone, but on the iTouch - nevermind something like the Buglabs phone module: http://www.buglabs.net
Ideally though, we shouldn’t even need a device like the iPhone or a program like Skype to make any of this happen. We should be able to do it all with pure radio waves - with hundred year old technology, in essence, married to modern network topology and neighborhood mesh networks, etc