According to a report from TNI Securities, Nintendo’s new multimedia gaming handheld, the Dual Screen (DS), will support wireless VoIP. The Nintendo DS includes a built-in 802.11b WiFi radio when combined with the device’s headset jack, will allow users to place VoIP phone calls at home, office, and at WiFi hotspots. Talk about about being ubiquitiously connected… Many insiders and analysts speculate that a wireless VoIP-enabled Nintendo handheld could help spur the growth of Voice-over-WLAN (VoWLAN) use in the consumer market. The Nintendo DS is scheduled to ship later this year in the US and Japan.

Not to be left out of the portable gaming foray Sony’s upcoming PSP also comes with integrated Wi-Fi, it goes one step further. The portable gaming unit will not only integrate VoIP, it will include a VoIP translator called “Talkman” software allowing for vocal translation of up to nine languages….

For more on Nintendo’s potential foray into wireless VoIP:
- see this piece from GameSpot News.

Vonage co-founder and Free World Dialup (FWD) Founder, Jeff Pulver who will be putting on the Fall 2004 VON Conference & Expo in Boston this fall also offers his two cents on VoIP and Gaming.