Skype Offers Half Pregnant Java Mobile Phone Client

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1. Fede Req.
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 6:37 am

   I’ve been wating for something like this for a long long time.

   Except for the “pregnant” stuff, but i think its a matter of time until they finally give the skype skype and skype out options available.

   It would be great to have just the data plan on our cells and make all the long and short distance calls trough it.

2. Siddharth
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 6:39 am

   Hopefully this will all help the company to stay and not get resold by eBay to someone another. EBay is considering to sale its skype division for sometime may be this can force them to reconsider.

3. Cosmin Ghiu
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 7:19 am

   Great post. My only gripe is that they didnt wait until it was compatible with RIM Blackberry among other business enterprise user phones.

4. Sunil
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 7:24 am

   Yeah, Skype is cool.

5. omfut
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 8:27 am

   Duncan,
   What happened to iSkoot that was providing Skype mobile access? Skype used iSkoot’s client on mobile for 3 network. My guess is, even this client is provided by iSkoot. Would love to hear from you if this is an in-house Skype client or iSkoot client

   Cheers,
   omfut

6. Oh boy...
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 8:40 am

   OK that title sounds very strange….

7. J
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am

   Interesting news. I already use Skype voice calls on my Nokia phone trough Fring. One problem: the latency on my EDGE connection is quite high.

8. Guess Who
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 10:49 am

   This is a steaming pile of horse manure. No direct Skype to Skype VOIP call, and it’s Java, not native Symbian.

9. Elliott Back
   

   April 25th, 2008 at 11:32 am

   I think instead of half-pregnant, you mean “half-baked” or so…

10. Jag
    

    April 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    This is crap. All this really does is use Skype as a pseudo-address book. I still have to pay (using my phone plan’s minutes AND the SkypeOut rate) to make a call, and I also pay to receive a call (SkypeOut to UK Mobile tariffs are painfully ridiculous).

    Piss off, Skype - I want my free calls.

11. Ziad
    

    April 25th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    The whole point of the expression of half pregnant is that you can’t be half pregnant.

    I would have preferred “half assed” myself.

12. Alex Linhares
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 3:40 am

    Finally someone in skype is using that gray matter. It’s probably just going on in select places because Skype is peer-to-peer, and they may likely find themselves in trouble if cell phones (leechers) are not seeding, in piratebayspeak. Of course they won’t be seeding, so unless skype does something about it, “their” network might crumble in the long run. What I’d suggest them is to charge something like 10 bucks a year to use it on a cell phone; or alternatively ask users to “get credits” by keeping skype running on their machines so that “their” network doesn’t fall apart.

13. Jose Miguel Cansado
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Skype on mobile phones is great, only if you have a data flat rate…

    Else, limit Skype to presence and IM, or your calls will be expensive. Yes, also when you are in roaming…

14. Abhishek
    

    April 27th, 2008 at 2:30 am

    This is certainly good news. In today’s world, people our desperate to message using skype and are constantly on the go. The features of skype are much better than yahoo and msn, but takes some time getting used to. Abhishek http://www.dibugs.com

15. Sally Wu
    

    May 15th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    i have used skype on and off for a while; with very mixed results. sounds like this app is extending the mix. check out my latest skype post here: http://webpoet.wordpress.com/2.....ant-skype/