Skype Mobile Client Out
Apr 29, 2008 | 1:29 pm
#1
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Skype Mobile Client Out
Skype has just released a beta of mobile client that should run on many mobile phones which handle java. Here is a link to an article on it:
http://www.tech2.com/india/news/inte...m_medium=email
I don't know whether it is available for public download yet.
http://www.tech2.com/india/news/inte...m_medium=email
I don't know whether it is available for public download yet.
Apr 29, 2008 | 4:31 pm
#2
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more can be found here:
http://www.skype.com/go/mobiledownload
http://www.skype.com/go/mobiledownload
Apr 30, 2008 | 10:58 pm
#4
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However having Skype on my Iphone is the the coolest thing this week.
Apr 30, 2008 | 11:00 pm
#5
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Well Fring is better in that it is a multi-platform chat client (Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN, yahoo, etc.). But it doesn't have all the Skype features yet. Just basic chat. And the Skype voice codec doesn't work very well, at least on the IPhone.
However having Skype on my Iphone is the the coolest thing this week.
However having Skype on my Iphone is the the coolest thing this week.
Apr 30, 2008 | 11:58 pm
#6
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It ain't good, but it is alpha code. And having that IPhone chat and VoIP tool while using the WiFi in a coffee shop in central Asia, and avoiding paying massive roaming charges to my cellular provider was priceless. Well not truly priceless, but worth a lot in any case.
May 1, 2008 | 8:44 pm
#9
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Fring works very nicely on my E61 over wi-fi (unfair advantage I know 
) - and quite nicely over WCDMA. When I'm in a 2G (ie EDGE/GPRS as noted earlier) network area not quite so good - but adequate.
) - and quite nicely over WCDMA. When I'm in a 2G (ie EDGE/GPRS as noted earlier) network area not quite so good - but adequate.
May 4, 2008 | 9:26 am
#10
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I use fring on my ppc devices, since the skyke clients I have used for about 2 years on the ppc are just junk. The latest is no better, a resource hog and it craps out things like the bluetooth stack making reboots a requirements. I went back to an earlier version for a recent trip, and it was just as bad as I had rememebered. The fring client uses your skype out credit and is much more stable and sounds better to third parties. I really don't know why skype doesn't get this right for ppc devices
May 8, 2008 | 10:28 am
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