Comments on: Review: Skype for iPhone. Verdict: Awesome.

By: sree

sree — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:39:42 +0000

I have recently bought an unlocked iphone 3gs .I have a prepaid at&t line with unlimited phone calls + 200mb data plan($75/month).Apparently i am not a techy guy and would like to know, in what way will skype help me? Is it useful for making only phone calls ? do i still need need to buy a data plan?
Thanks in advance

By: logan

logan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:44:17 +0000

wow very impressed with my iphone4. best unlocked gsm phone in my opinion right now. great touch screen, love my black one but probably going to get a white one. it's responsive and the processor is faster, email is practical and the games and apps are great for downtime. love my new unlocked phone. got my last 2 at gsmallover.com and going to get one more for my daughter. 2 thumbs up

By: review

review — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:08:38 +0000

If any body don't know about Skype then let me tell you that, Skype is a chatting application. I chat with my friends online from skype. What i feel is that Skype is better then yahoo. The reason are

1 Best video chat quality. 2 Cheap international phone call. 3 Best voice quality.

And there are many more + points of Skype as compare to yahoo.

I have installed it, What about you?????????/

By: wendy

wendy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:45:39 +0000

How do you make an international call on iphone skype? I tried and it automatically places a 1 in front of my contact number which is not correct if you are trying to call international

By: Bill Horton

Bill Horton — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:23:28 +0000

How can I use a bluetooth device with skype on my iphone?

By: unhappycostumer

unhappycostumer — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:22:35 +0000

I thought skype was a good idea, I could communicate with my family. But as they say all good things doesnt lasts long. I used called Skype phones and cell phones but now it seems that the skype owners have discovered a machine to make money the rates now are so high if you buy 10us skype credit you only talk maybe 10 minutes. Then even if I pay a telephone company. because they have to recharge skype for 3 to 4 times of what I pay for a landline or cell phone contract. So I say that Skype is not anything cheap because even if you call skype to skype you always have problems, the call is cut or you get an information that your computer is slow. i think they lie because when you make a call whit skype credit this information is not displayed.

By: Flint a Logical Fit to Chair Skype’s Board – GigaOM

Flint a Logical Fit to Chair Skype’s Board – GigaOM — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:24:22 +0000

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By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:05:18 +0000

Thanks, Peter.

By: Peter Parkes (Skype Blogger)

Peter Parkes (Skype Blogger) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:46:44 +0000

Not at the moment, unfortunately – but anything’s possible in future. Same applies to calls – you can add people in from the desktop clients but not the iPhone one (yet).

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:00:32 +0000

Is there are a way to add people to a chat in the Skype iPhone client? I'm running Skype on an iPhone 3GS and routinely have to send the same information to two or more people. I could easily add additional people to chat in the desktop client, but no so in the phone client. Am I missing something?

By: zahadum

zahadum — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:51:08 +0000

after trying to use Fring for a while i now withdraw my endorsement of it.

it is totally unuseable on any/every wifi network i can find (on all versions of osx mobile, and on two different 3G and one 3Gs).

upstreams is inaudible.

worst of all fring INSISTS on *NOT* having a revenue model, so it cant afford to hire engineers or tech suport to fix horrible auido quality.

fring’s SOP is to blame the customers voip gateway instead of accepting responsibility for their own mediocre engineering.

fring has no telemetry engine so it cant even debug/log where the bottlenecks are actually located.

fring is a total FAIL (and its UIis graceless, ineffecient, and awkward).

—- however, that doesnt take away from the *principle* that SIP should be preferred to (proprietary) skype! …

… however, if skype were to FINALLY (all the years later) actually get some local numbers (outside of usa market) i would probably just give in & give up a standards based approach.

at this point i am prepared to be al liitle bit pragmatic & agnontsic about “standards” if i cac actually have a product that will work!!

(I thought SIPphone would be a solution – at least they charge for their product! – but there is not much difference my callers can experienc … despite what seems to be a GUI that suggests a vastly superior engineering effort as compared to fring),

sigh.

By: Denisa

Denisa — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:14:34 +0000

Hi, Can you use Skype Landline numbers on this ? That would then allow any none Skype users to call me on a generic local number that Skype sells for the cost of a landline. This feature does not work on the 3 network as they are too worried about customers not needing any credit.

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Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:16:48 +0000

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By: Jannis Gundermann

Jannis Gundermann — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:43:19 +0000

Nice review/preview. While it has been a little while since the original post I can see the discussion continuing quite actively.

So maybe you’ll be able to help me with this question:

When using skype for iphone on my iPhone 3GS with its supplied apple headset the connection is great, so is voice quality BUT whenever the screen ‘dims’/turns off the call gets put on hold.
While without the headset the iphone naturally turns the screen off when you hold it up to your head this same ‘turning off the screen’ does not affect the call when using the headset the screen will dim, then turn off (based on my ‘Auto Lock’ settings which will then put the call on hold.

Is there no way to keep talking with Skype running but the display being off?

Thanks.

By: ronald

ronald — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:10:48 +0000

Great app. And also the same great voice quality I am used to from the desktop/laptop!

There are only two big things missing:
1. Push notifications (when the iPhone is standby or using other apps).
2. The screen should be dimmed, based on your defaults. Half an hour call will ruin your battery life…

Video (viewing) is nice to have.