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Wednesday Nokia anounced it’s Gizmo collaboration for the N80 Internet Edition, Thursday I made my first SIP call with Andy straight from my laptop to his wi-fi connected n80 somewhere out there in the hills of California. The quality and easyness of use of Gizmo connecting to a mobile phone was excellent; on the other side of the (un)wire, Andy states:

My experience with it has been nothing less than spectacular. Fully integrated VoIP on a very high quality mobile phone is a dream come true.

I beam the experience!

The plugin is not yet available for other phones but the news is a blessing coming to aid soon now for my recent phonebills. SIP is the most popular Voice over IP (VoIP) standard. SIP enables two or more people to make phone calls to each other using the Internet to carry the call. SIP calls are part of the Internet you get great features like free voicemail to email and phone numbers from many places in the world no matter where you live.

From the Nokia pressrelease:

Nokia N80 Internet Edition users download the free Gizmo VoIP settings from the Download! folder in their device, automatically beginning the installation process. During installation, users go through a simple two-step process for creating a free account that they’ll use to make Internet calls. Other capabilities, such as customizing voicemail greetings, purchasing Gizmo Call Out credit for dialing landlines and mobile devices and managing Gizmo account settings are available by using the Nokia N80 Internet Edition to browse the www.gizmovoip.com web site.

Kudos to Nokia and Gizmo for creating such an easy to read and understand miniwebsite. All details on the collaboration can be found for web- and mobile users, every single step to start using Gizmo on the N80 is documented with screenshots and easy to read explanations. I can’t wait to try this on my phone myself. For the lucky ones who own a N80, you can download the Gizmo N80 client here.

Computerworld reports on some analysis from Darren Siddall, an analyst at Gartner:

“The seemingly opposing offerings from Nokia indicate a general hedging of bets in the mobile world, on one hand, operators don’t want their networks to be used mainly by services they aren’t making money on. But they also want to discover which applications are popular with users and figure out how to earn revenue from such services. There’s a lot of uncertainty about which applications users will find valuable.”

Technology changes the way we communicate, business models change accordingly in a natural way, this process is happening for a while now and it certainly won’t stop anytime soon…