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3GSM - Skype Moves To Symbian

Posted by Carlo Longino on 02.16.06 | 3 Comments

I know I promised more details about Skype for mobile, but there really aren’t any. Skype’s not adding much nor is 3. But the eagle-eyed Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian spotted a Skype client running on a Nokia S60 phone. it’s not exactly surprising, but at least proves there’s a complete, running version of Skype for the S60 platform.

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On 02.17.06 Russell Buckley said:
I heard a rumour, from a pretty senior source in the handset market, that the smart money was on Moto as the handset partner. Maybe that’s what Zander was planning to announce and then had to pull it for some reason.

Could be rubbish, of course.

Russell
On 02.20.06 alfie said:
I use http://www.useful-apps.com Useful Skype client - it works brilliantly on series 60.

check out my post on it from yesterday, Im dead impressed with it:

http://www.al4ie.com/?p=580
On 08.10.06 iSkoot: The New Mobile Face of Skype? at MobHappy said:
[...] iSkoot today announced a deal with Skype, where it will certify iSkoot and offer it for download from its site, then later the two companies will co-market iSkoot and Skype to mobile handset vendors and operators. It sounds like iSkoot could become the mobile version of Skype, despite the appearance of native smartphone versions Skype clients that could run over a cellular data connection, which look like they’ll probably be useful really only for usage over Wi-Fi. [...]