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Official Skype App is Now Available in the App Store
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Do you really need a phone on your phone to call someone on a phone on their phone?????
Calling from Europe to (for example) the US using skype is either free or very cheap while making a direct call it's very very expensive. So yeah, I could really use skype
Don't tell me you didn't think about that?You're right, my mistake. Let's use the general term 'memory' instead
com.skype.skype
How do you change the plist? It says I dont have privileges to modify it
Using the War Department's 3G iPhone and Skype is working just fine. Little bit of an echo in the beginning, but that's b/c the iPhone was next to my MBP. Tried some Skype chat and it was blazing fast w/o LAG. WiFi was totally uninterrupted and clear voice calls to other Skype members. My 3g JB iPhone couldn't even get past the login part. I pressed one key and it went crash. Hopefully there's a fix in the works for us JBers. I like the new app a bunch.....
I'm pleasantly surprised that it works fine on my unlocked 1st gen phone running 3.0. AND it works on EDGE without wifi being on... worked perfectly fine for me.
Yay!!! Finally!!!
...but what's the point if it does not run in the background?
Question: if apple did allow skype to work without 3G, will it run on EDGE?
I guess for now calling without wifi for skype for now is skype to go...
...but what's the point if it does not run in the background?
Question: if apple did allow skype to work without 3G, will it run on EDGE?
okay, but does CALLING work over EDGE?
I guess for now calling without wifi for skype for now is skype to go...
It runs fine (calling) on EDGE for me, my phone isnt jailbroken, its just unlocked and on t-mobile. I don't have any modifications to the software at all. Just the baseband
I was in the same boat, so I had to search my emails and I found the Skype ID, but forgot the password, so I had to email a new password, then change the 25 letter/number password to my own password. Pretty easy and pretty quick as well...
I might be mistaken but RAM is Random Access Memory. The Flash memory in the iPhone is a type of RAM. What he said was correct.
My thoughts too... it's like having a phone that you can call people from, but nobody can call you - unless they happen to call when you've got the Skype app running.
I was going to add that hopefully this would be sorted with OS3, but wouldn't running Skype as a background app be a battery hog?
Wow, seriously, not available in Canada? The ONLY country in which it is not available?
Would anyone be able to send me the IPA file so that I could install? I'd really like to be able to use it on my jailbroken phone.
Also, it seems many people do not realize the significance of having the official Skype for the iPhone. First, it's a way to make FREE phone calls to other phones with Skype (not just the iPhone, BTW; it's been around on WM for a while now). Not everyone has unlimited minutes, but with Skype this isn't a worry. Second, this is a must-have for international calls to other computers/phones with Skype.
And finally, there is a Cydia app that tricks the iPhone into thinking that it is always on WiFi so that we potentially could use Skype over 3G (without having 3.0). Has anyone tested this yet? I'd be very curious to see if it works.
Thanks.
Would anyone be able to send me the IPA file so that I could install? I'd really like to be able to use it on my jailbroken phone.
Also, it seems many people do not realize the significance of having the official Skype for the iPhone. First, it's a way to make FREE phone calls to other phones with Skype (not just the iPhone, BTW; it's been around on WM for a while now). Not everyone has unlimited minutes, but with Skype this isn't a worry. Second, this is a must-have for international calls to other computers/phones with Skype.
And finally, there is a Cydia app that tricks the iPhone into thinking that it is always on WiFi so that we potentially could use Skype over 3G (without having 3.0). Has anyone tested this yet? I'd be very curious to see if it works.
Thanks.
RAM loses its stored data when it has no power supply, flash storage does not. Otherwise everyone would be having to sync their iPods and iPhones every time the battery died. They clearly have different uses, and their uses and productivity differ greatly, so I feel that it is incorrect to use "RAM" and "flash" interchangeably.
Volatile memory loses it's stored data when it has no power supply - traditionally, volatile memory has been used as RAM, but they're not the same thing. The ROM/RAM definitions came about in a different era of computing, when memory tended to be either one or the other. Today's solid state storage devices don't really fit into those definitions any more, so I don't think any use is technically right or wrong.
That said, I do cringe with the growing tendency for people to say that their computer has got "500 gigabytes of memory".
Sorry. OT.
Does for me, too
App works fine. No crashes. Most crashes are actually a result of the poor quality of the iPhone's API implementations, not the 3rd parties. Even Safari crashes using the same software. Apple need to do some serious debugging on their code.
I don't get why the service is limited to WiFi. Most people use Skype for international calls, which they wouldn't be making on their mobile, so carriers aren't really losing any money.
I'd also like the ability to view someone else's video from my iPhone. I get that it can't send video, but surely it can receive it. That can hog the data network, so they can restrict that to WiFi.
Oh, and you Flash RAM people have got it totally wrong. Flash, like IDE hard drives, are storage. RAM is Memory. They are different.
crashing at very 40 seconds of every single call. Very frustrating...
For all the folks with problem of crashing, we should report the problem...
For all the folks with problem of crashing, we should report the problem...
Did you update the carrier file to the O2.ipcc file found various linked to in the forums?
Works fine for me.