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msmobiles.com_robot
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 Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:14 am Post subject: Skype to improve Skype client for Windows Mobile ! |
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While still there is no Skype client for Sybmian and Palm OS, Skype for Windows Mobile is the only Skype client for mobile phones. HelloSoft is licensing to Skype a technology to improve Skype mobile and specificall...
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kvee
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Aha, Skype can be used on Symbian. Take a look at "Fring"
http://www.fring.com/blog/?p=17
and here
http://www.fring.com/download/
Nokia users report Skype is up and running on their Symbian phones using the (free) Fring software.
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wibbble
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| kvee wrote: | Aha, Skype can be used on Symbian. Take a look at "Fring"
http://www.fring.com/blog/?p=17
Nokia users report Skype is up and running on their Symbian phones using the (free) Fring software. |
Not only that, but Three in the UK have Skype on the Nokia N73 as part of their 'X-Series' brand: http://three.co.uk/xseries/features/skype/index.omp
So there's absolutely no technical reason why S60/Symbian can't do Skype - it's just that Three have paid them money to get it on their network first.
The anti-Symbian stuff in this site comes across as really petty and childish a lot of the time. As a Mac user, it reminds me of the anti-MS stupidity you see in the Mac community. There's just no need for it. |
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kvee
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:19 am Post subject: |
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yeah the favourite "symbian can't do that" has always been Skype.
Not any more !! Have to find something new. |
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EJR
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| kvee wrote: | yeah the favourite "symbian can't do that" has always been Skype.
Not any more !! Have to find something new. |
No, it is not Skype client for Symbian but 3rd party application NOT FROM SKYPE that connects to 3rd party servers that in turn connect to Skype servers. So in fact still there is no Skype client for Symbian although there "some kind of proprietary 3rd party solution that delivers Skype service to some Symbian phones on one operator - 3 in UK". It's not the same! |
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wibbble
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| msmobiles.com_wiseacre wrote: | | kvee wrote: | yeah the favourite "symbian can't do that" has always been Skype.
Not any more !! Have to find something new. |
No, it is not Skype client for Symbian but 3rd party application NOT FROM SKYPE that connects to 3rd party servers that in turn connect to Skype servers. So in fact still there is no Skype client for Symbian although there "some kind of proprietary 3rd party solution that delivers Skype service to some Symbian phones on one operator - 3 in UK". It's not the same! |
You've got it confused: there is an official Sykpe client on Three, and a third-party solution for everyone else.
There is Sykpe for S60, it's just restricted to one network at the moment.
Seriously, this anti-Symbian blindspot really ruins this site. It's hard to take things seriously when there's such obvious mindless bias. If you're going to go to such lengths to deny the obvious, how can anything else posted on the site be trusted? This is the only Windows Mobile site I read regularly, and I'm starting to wonder if that's a bad idea. :o/ |
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ghl
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Let's hope that the Skype client for Smartphone doesn't suffer from those "improvements" !
Actually I was positively surprised when Skype for Smartphone was released.
The GUI is immensely user-friendly and modern and designed in a very logical way.
I wished also other programs for Smartphone were equally well-designed !
Also it is actually possible with a 200MHz processor (Qtek 8300) to use Skype via WLAN.
As for the dedicated "anti-Symbian" attitude to be seen in articles and postings on this site I agree: this is something which I think is rather obsolete.
Readers here want to read news focussing on MS Smartphones and do not want to read articles agains Symbian which rather remind me of being written by a religious missionary.
I have been using MS Smartphones since 2003 now and I like them (although in 2003 you had to be a hard-core user to use them as it had often been rather a hassle than fun).
The MS Smartphone platform however - and why shouldn't be rather *emphasize* on this here ? - has to still learn a lot from Nokia:
* Where are (HTC-) Smartphones with excellent cameras ?
* Where are zoom cameras ?
* Where are camera flashes (rather than pretty useless "video lights") ?
* Where are displays that can be read also when having switched off ?
etc. etc.
* What about energy consumption ?
Actually I do not care about the company having manufactured my phone.
I moved to MS Smartphone in 2003 as this platform allowed browsing the internet in a much better way then.
Meanwhile especially HTC seems to have slowed down technical development of their phones (last good phone was the Qtek 8300; the Mteor was a big flop, no other phone since  (
Also Microsoft could perform much better in developing the WM O/S.
Shouldn't we rather demand all this from HTC and Microsoft than decry the competitor ??? |
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