According to GameSpot the upcoming Nintendo DS (the successor of the Nintendo GameBoy Advance) will "enable free phone calls at wireless hotspots".
Last week Gizmodo posted about the "mystery hole" on the Nintendo DS and confirmed that it was for a microphone headset, which definitely jives with the news being released today. What still isn't known so far though, is whether you'll be able to call anybody over the VoIP setup, or if it can only call other Nintendo DS users. Here's a quote:
Analyst Boris Markovich in his weekly memo said, "The headset will allow gamers to use the DS as a phone handset enabling free phone calls over wireless network hotspots. We think that this will be a very compelling application of the handset..."[GameSpot]
Information has come out about Nintendo's upcoming DS handheld's ability to serve as a voice-over-IP handset, allowing DS gamers to make phone calls when connected to a Wi-Fi access point. There's no word if the service will allow DS users to call other, regular phones or not. Knowing Nintendo, it's probably more likely that DS users will be able to chat to other DS users, and not serve as an actual phone.
[via Gizmodo]
Posted by peter on August 31, 2004 at 03:00 PM