GigaOm: Om Malik's Broadband Blog: When Vonage goes portable

During the course of a conversation, he told me that the company had developed a Beta version of "softphone", a piece of software that resides on a PDA (read Pocket PC) or a Laptop and can connect to the internet using a WI-Fi connection. This also comes with its own phone number and can be mapped with your local phone number (assuming that you use Vonage phone service.) A Mac OS-X client is in the works as well and will out fairly soon.

So when will this be available? Citron, refused to comment when, but this morning I got hold of a PC-version of the beta software and have been making phone calls with it. Works, as expected just like a Vonage Phone.

I think this is a pretty significant development, for by signing up for this service which is going to cost about $12 a month, you dont need to lug around an ATA and never miss phone calls to your broadband phone line. Now assume you can run it on a SmartPhone powered by Microsoft OS or a Palm OS! (Bill put some dollars in these guys for they are the sole reason why someone might actually give a damn about Microsoft-based SmartPhones.) See comments on Clarisys USB telephone for laptop.