In December, Skype announced beta clients for Windows Mobile-enabled devices, Skype Lite. Skype is also enabled on several of the iPhone’s competitors’ platforms, including Google’s Android mobile platform and more than 100 Java-enabled mobile phones. Skype, which was snapped up by the online auction firm eBay for $2.6 billion in 2005, also made note of the application’s capacity for personalization, pointing out users can update their Skype profile picture from within the Skype for iPhone app, either by choosing an existing image from a photo album on the device, or by using the iPhone’s built-in camera to take a new photo. The app uses Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS or EDGE (whichever is available) to sign into Skype, update a contact list, maintain and update presence and also send and receive instant messages. The application allows users to make free Skype-to-Skype calls from any Wi-Fi zone to other Skype users worldwide, as well as make calls to landlines and mobile phone at low rates. “Skype for iPhone will open up new ways for more than 400 million Skype users to stay connected and take their Skype conversations with them.”ĭurchslag characterized the convergence of technologies as a marriage of Skype’s “simplicity, ease-of-use and quality” and Apple’s “elegance of design and richness.” Skype’s voice over IP (VOIP) technology allows users to make phone calls over the Web. “We are delighted to deliver on this request and put Skype into the pockets of millions of people around the world who are carrying iPhone and iPod touch devices,” he said. The application is free to download from Apple’s online App Store.Ĭompany CEO Scott Durchslag said Skype software for the iPhone has been the No. ![]() ![]() Although other third-party developers offer Skype clients, this is the first Skype-powered application for either device. After a long wait, Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners are finally able to download the much-requested Skype application onto their mobiles.
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