Comments on: Skype: No Palm Pre App for Now http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/ Tue, 21 May 2013 04:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Skype Is Coming to the Nokia N900 http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213651 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:07:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213651 [...] successful mobile platform. It’s among the most-downloaded apps on the iPhone platform. But Skype says it has no plans for launching a version of its software for the Palm [...]

]]> By: Taylor Harris http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213650 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:19:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213650 I use Skype on my iPod Touch when I am over seas to call the states. I am unable to do this with my Blackberry (Sprint) since Sprint decided to disable WIFI on the Curve edition for their network. If the Pre had a Skype app I would happily drop the Curve and move over.

]]> By: Tripps http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213649 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:31:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213649 Generic skype ftw? Would rather Skype bury whatever bad blood is between them and Palm and just make the damn app.

]]> By: mark http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213648 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:24:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213648 No demand , do you make any international calls ? it doesn’t sound like you do .

]]> By: Ron http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213647 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:20:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213647 Correction: Not sure about WIFI usage but I am sure about the Sprint network.

]]> By: Ron http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213646 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:12:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213646 Aside from my comments above the Pre is one incredible smartphone. Easy to use multi apps with a keyboard is an iPhone killer IMO. The internal hardware is built with the most expensive state of the art components. It shows and the OS is great. Very fast in comparison, flexible, easy to use. I wish the keyboard was a little larger but then the phone wouldn’t fit so easily in my pocket, so I am willing to live with this. The only missing ingredient at this time is more apps but the main ones are there and more are coming. Look at how long it took to get apps for the iPhone, and Palm is moving faster. Do not believe the fear mongers. This phone beats iPhone and Crackberry, at much lower usage cost on the Sprint network, which I have had no problem using. Palm is back in the game with the Pre. Watch out for the next version. If they add video and a qwerty screen pad it’s seriously gonna kill.

]]> By: Ron http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213645 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:34:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213645 Forget about using Skype or any other data based program using WIFI or the Sprint system outside the US on the Palm Pre unless you have an international data plan. I speak from experience. Data usage is EXTREMELY expensive outside the US, even just from Canada. According to Sprint data usage is hard to separate from talk minutes on the Pre as it is such a data based phone.

]]> By: Elena http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213644 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:54:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213644 Hi Jennifer,

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]]> By: Doc http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213643 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:43:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213643 Obviously the stock holders don’t know it’s dead yet either. I put $200 into Palm right after the Pre was announced, and just pulled $375 out. Oh, and it seems to be quite alive and well for me in my day-to-day use of it too.

Sure it only has 30 third-party apps a whole *month* after launch (gasp!). Now please tell everyone how many third-party apps the iPhone had a month… or two… or four… after launch? For some reason, I inexplicably think of a goose egg when I’m contemplating this figure. Palm hasn’t released the SDK to the public yet, but they already have the beta out to some developers. Apple took almost six months to get the beta out, and then another four or so to release it publicly. Palm is stating that they expect to have the SDK in the public’s hands by the “end of summer” — worst case scenario, it’s STILL in developers’ hands in a shorter span of time than Apple got the iPhone SDK released even in beta form.

Why were the iPhone’s sales numbers so great? Because it had the market to itself, and it’s Apple. If people wanted a smartphone that was sleek and easy to use, there was only one answer, and it was the iPhone. Not to mention all the Apple geeks out there who bought it just because it was a phone and it was made by Apple — I have nothing against them, but they’re still a large part of the market, and probably accounted for a significant number of the early sales figures — business and casual users aren’t going to be the early adopters of any technology, it will always be the geeks and technophiles. Now, the Pre is entering a nearly-saturated market, and it’s *still* making waves, even if it’s not posting mind-boggling sales numbers.

]]> By: Rene http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/skype-no-palm-pre-app-for-now/#comment-213642 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:56:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53683#comment-213642 You are 100% right. As a Palm owner it is so obvious, that Skype simple refuses to support Palm. I wonder what is really going on here.

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