Is Playstation Skype the teen phone answer?

http://skype.com/allfeatures/skypeonpsp/

Instead of signing yourselves up to be Sellphone Slaves just to get your
kids a phone of their own, I think Sony and Skype have the answer.....

SKYPE ON THE PLAYSTATION PORTABLE 2000!

Buy the kids a new PSP 2000 video game with wifi and the headsets.
Go to:
http://skype.com/allfeatures/skypeonpsp/
and click the Sony button to upgrade its firmware on the PSP if it
doesn't have Skype, already.
Sign up each kid for their OWN Skype account for free on your desktop
computer. Buy each one Skype Unlimited (10000 mins/month) and a local
Skype In POTS phone number (unlimited incoming) for about $44/YEAR so
their non-Skype-yet friends can call them and they can call any phone.

Put regular Skype on their desktop computer with a nice USB headset for
$15 from Logitech so you can sleep without hearing the disgusting things
her boyfriend says to her when they're in heat.

Now she has the new video game AND a really cheap wifi phone that WON'T
put Dad in the poorhouse TEXTING on SELLular's ripoff system! All her
friends will soon have at least Skype on their desktops, others can put
Skype on their smartphones, others will get a new PSP with Skype because
THEIR daddy will soon get tired of the constant whining, too.

I see a MAJOR benefit to this PSP Skype phone, right away! IT DOESN'T
WORK IF THERE'S NO WIFI...She's not talking and texting while DRIVING!
She's not talking and texting while IN SCHOOL when she should be
studying! Is that good?

No more need of family share plans for big money to get enough minutes
for the teens. They can talk all they want...even text Skype to Skype.
No more family fights over the SELLphone bill with 2000 OVERAGE minutes!
No more dead prepaid phones she burns up the minutes on the first 5 days
of the month....and all that whining the other 26 days!

http://skype.com/allfeatures/skypeonpsp/
Skype has some of the coolest ideas......(c;

You can cut back to the $39 Sellphone plan you used to have when she was
11! And, when you go out as a family, you'll AUTOMATICALLY know where
EVERY wifi hotspot is across the whole area she roams across for your
laptop or tablet!.....another benefit.

In article <Xns9A9EF2CCBB1EDnoonehomecom@208.49.80.253>,
Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> Sign up each kid for their OWN Skype account for free on your desktop
> computer. Buy each one Skype Unlimited (10000 mins/month) and a local
> Skype In POTS phone number (unlimited incoming) for about $44/YEAR so
> their non-Skype-yet friends can call them and they can call any phone.
>
> Put regular Skype on their desktop computer with a nice USB headset for
> $15 from Logitech so you can sleep without hearing the disgusting things
> her boyfriend says to her when they're in heat.

You assume much:

* that my child will have a game console (no)

* that my intent, ever, is for my kids to have a phone in their room (no)

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article <Xns9A9EF2CCBB1EDnoonehomecom@208.49.80.253>,
> Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>
>> Sign up each kid for their OWN Skype account for free on your desktop
>> computer. Buy each one Skype Unlimited (10000 mins/month) and a local
>> Skype In POTS phone number (unlimited incoming) for about $44/YEAR so
>> their non-Skype-yet friends can call them and they can call any phone.
>>
>> Put regular Skype on their desktop computer with a nice USB headset for
>> $15 from Logitech so you can sleep without hearing the disgusting things
>> her boyfriend says to her when they're in heat.
>
> You assume much:
>
> * that my child will have a game console (no)
>
> * that my intent, ever, is for my kids to have a phone in their room (no)
>
What a mean terrible parent! Don't you know how important it is for the
kids "self esteem" to be able to do whatever they want without parental
supervision? And that it is also very important for them for them to
lock themselves away so they can play with electronic devices and never
interact with others so they never develop social skills?

In article <Od6dnZAAV6F9qbHVnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> >> Put regular Skype on their desktop computer with a nice USB headset for
> >> $15 from Logitech so you can sleep without hearing the disgusting things
> >> her boyfriend says to her when they're in heat.
> >
> > You assume much:
> >
> > * that my child will have a game console (no)
> >
> > * that my intent, ever, is for my kids to have a phone in their room (no)
> >
> What a mean terrible parent! Don't you know how important it is for the
> kids "self esteem" to be able to do whatever they want without parental
> supervision? And that it is also very important for them for them to
> lock themselves away so they can play with electronic devices and never
> interact with others so they never develop social skills?

yeah, just lock me up now.

My kids do have computers; in fact, each kid has his own.

They're on a table, in the family room, facing inward.

Set the expectations early, and you get what you get. Me, I set the
expectation that their life is an open book to me. It's not a mean
thing. It's called PARENTING. Alas, there are too many idiots in the
world and not enough actual parents.

Your child is not your best friend. You are not your child's best
friend.

Get Magicjack. $40 for the first year, $20 a year thereafter.

Works with any analog phone an a broadband Internet connection.

Cheaper than skHYPE.

At 15 May 2008 18:03:03 -0400 Diamond Dave wrote:
> Get Magicjack. $40 for the first year, $20 a year thereafter.

Ah, but the second "P" in PSP stands for "portable" which MagicJack
certainly isn't, unless your idea of a cordless phone is a laptop with a
headset plugged in it!


> Works with any analog phone an a broadband Internet connection.

No, it works with any analog phone and a COMPUTER hooked to a broadband
connection. MJ needs a computer to serve up the advertising that will help
support it's low rates.


> Cheaper than skHYPE.

Yes, but infinitely less versatile.

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:dU2Xj.311$gi1.211
@fe107.usenetserver.com:

> MJ needs a computer to serve up the advertising that will help
> support it's low rates.
>

GROSS! Another NET ZERO!

On Thu, 15 May 2008 16:21:16 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:


>Yes, but infinitely less versatile.

That's why I have my VERIZON CELL PHONE! :)

Gee, that's where I found this post to begin with..

At 16 May 2008 19:32:42 -0400 Diamond Dave wrote:


> >Yes, but infinitely less versatile.
>
> That's why I have my VERIZON CELL PHONE! :)


And, if it's a WinMo WiFi-capable phone, like the VX-6800 or 6900, you
could use Skype, (but not MagicJack) on it, for when you have WiFi
available but not Verizon service. Like outside North America for
example... ;-)

On Fri, 16 May 2008 18:00:13 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:


>And, if it's a WinMo WiFi-capable phone, like the VX-6800 or 6900, you
>could use Skype, (but not MagicJack) on it, for when you have WiFi
>available but not Verizon service. Like outside North America for
>example... ;-)

But you need Wi-Fi for Skype to work. Not with a real cell phone!

Actually, if I went to Europe a lot, I'd either get a GSM phone where
I could get pre-paid SIM cards, or get a CDMA/GSM combo phone.

Skype is still all HYPE. Same with MagicCrap (MagicJack), but
MagicJack is cheaper! :)