Uncyclopedia:Featured articles/December 19

HELSINKI -- Your mobile phone takes photos and video clips, plays music, receives and sends email, browses the Web, has a PDA with WiFi and Bluetooth built in and, of course, does text and picture messaging. But engineers at Nokia have proposed yet another feature to be added: "voice chat."

"The idea is that you can 'call up' anyone who also has a 'voice-chat'-enabled mobile and quickly have a real-time two-way conversation, instead of tapping your way through short text messages back and forth," says Nokia engineer Orkut Voivitunvittu.

Phone companies have desperately searched for new services to offer to offset the huge licensing fees for the 3G mobile data radio bands. The unexpected success of SMS text messaging helped the bottom line tremendously, but the search for the "next SMS" has been long and arduous. (Full article...)