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I would really wanna know how much u lot waste/send per month of mobile data.. for personal use

Mobile carrier have a large net, and u all are the fish they catch...

I'm betting $500 + easy

With video in particular, mobile carriers have never had it so good.
 
I've been tapping and googling and still can't find online contacts. That was my primary view in the old app. Has anyone else figured out how to find online contacts & if so how?
 
I've been tapping and googling and still can't find online contacts. That was my primary view in the old app. Has anyone else figured out how to find online contacts & if so how?

When you open the app, upper left where it says "Recent" followed by "favorites" scroll til you get "People" then below it tap all and change it to Online. Worse decision ever to hide it IMHO
 
If the world was perfect, yes, FaceTime would be app but I use Skype with my friend who just moved to New Mexico not long ago because he has a phone that uses that mobile OS system called Android. You guys herd of it before? :cool:
 
Keeping telling yourself that ... over and over again ... while the rest of us will use something that has proven itself across many platforms.

The rest of us? LOL I stopped using Skype for years. Slow, buggy, laggy and ugly. :eek:

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If the world was perfect, yes, FaceTime would be app but I use Skype with my friend who just moved to New Mexico not long ago because he has a phone that uses that mobile OS system called Android. You guys herd of it before? :cool:

Nope ;)

In all seriousness there are plenty of cross-platform apps for audio/video calling that are better than skype.
 
Skype?

That's the thing that is like facetime but is made by that company we all hate right? Bros?

Yes it is like that thing called Facetime/iMessage and I think you mean owned* not made by.

Skype wasn't created by Microsoft. It was created by Skype and that was most recently was purchased by Microsoft.
 
I'm only using Skype now because Apple never added the group calling feature to FaceTime (and doesn't appear to have any plans to) and buried iChat's group calling feature so deeply into iMessage it's impossible to figure out how to make it work anymore if it actually does.

Plus, products designed by Microsoft have terrible interfaces. But I need group chat. Thank a lot, Apple.
 
One thing I really hate Skype is it keeps notify me someone's birthday. I DON'T CARE!

And the saddest thing about Skype developers is... these guys really wanted to improve their UI... they just couldn't understand native UI = the best UI...
 
No, it's really nothing like FaceTime since it works with multiple platforms. :D

As for MS, personally I don't hate MS. Bored by it. Yes. Frustrated sometimes? Absolutely. Honestly, before I bought a trackpad the best input device I ever owned was a MS thumb trackball.

I heard their mouses are very good and ergonomic. Doesn't the magic trackpad hurt your wrist?
 
Looks and functions horribly. Reminds me of the windows phone interface with no iOS user interface consistency...

Can't even swipe left/right for iOS function. Way to go Microsoft, emphasis on the soft.
 
I heard their mouses are very good and ergonomic. Doesn't the magic trackpad hurt your wrist?
Trackpads are considered to be quite ergonomic and are seen more or less on the same level as trackballs, all of which are seen as better than typical mice.
 
When you open the app, upper left where it says "Recent" followed by "favorites" scroll til you get "People" then below it tap all and change it to Online. Worse decision ever to hide it IMHO
Thank you Rayfire!
 
Do not upgrade !!!

There are so many issues with the new App. I seriously suggest nobody upgrade (downgrade more like) to the new version.

- no way to delete old chats
- no way to access address book on phone
- images now shared via Microsoft servers (privacy issues...).
- no way to send other files anymore.. PDF etc.
- contacts now not listed with "online" users first.
- slower than old version
- crashes
- all criticism is being deleted on Skype Facebook page.. They are policing any criticism of the new version. Have a look at the skype own forum which shows all the issues found by users so far. Until they delete these.

etc. etc.

Microsoft is trying to make the free version less useful. Presumably there will be a pro version for money.. which will add the features back in again.

I urge all users not to update and advice experience with alternatives.

I urge Microsoft to come clean with their strategy so that we can all plan for the future now and not be left in the dark. What is Microsoft planning? Are we to be charged for the app? If so please tell us know.
 
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Looks like version 5.1 was just released addressing some of the things brought up in this thread.
 
Looks like version 5.1 was just released addressing some of the things brought up in this thread.

funny how they address so many issues so quickly, it's like they release a beta because they don't feel like paying their staff to test but they just don't say it is a beta :p kind of like win 8.0
 
The interface seems very WP8-like!

As a WindowsPhone user, I kinda feel betrayed. I have a Nokia Lumia 1020, and both Nokia and Skype are owned by Microsoft, but even so, the Skype app for WindowsPhone is sub-par. Yes, the interface is smooth, but the app if filled with annoying bugs, and lacks some basic features. Switching between front and back camera while video calling is extremely buggy, and the app doesn’t feature any type of file sharing, or something as simple as sending a photo from the camera roll.

I love WindowsPhone, and I’ve actually came from an iPhone to the 1020 because the phone is incredible and WindowsPhone 8.1 is just buttery smooth and has that awesome fluidity to it. However, I just do not like how developers are treating the platform (Facebook and Instagram are crap on WP and haven't been updated in ages), and it’s unacceptable that Microsoft themselves don’t seem very willing to push forward with its own software.

Microsoft themselves don’t seem to care that Skype, their own brand, has a superior app on competing platforms than on their own system.

iPhone 6 can't come soon enough so I can switch back.

Touch Office out first for iOS (before EITHER WinPhone or Windows 8.1 itself, fer cryin' out loud). And may be on Android next.

Nadella's mantra is apparently/and pretty much confirmed in his own words bringing software with mass market potential to the platforms with large viable markets first, whether Office, Skype or otherwise...

...where WinPhone is a small potatoes market at the moment (yeah, yeah, #2 in Italy. Cool. If you're an MS fan in Italy.)

...and if he'd been CEO two years ago, not sure the Nokia purchase would've been made, nor that he's personally that committed to the Surface line...

...i.e., think he's aiming more at offering ubiquitous software in a post-Windows hegemony world more than in re-creating an MS-centric "devices and services company" in an Apple-ish mode that Ballmer started pursuing...
 
And it looks like another update (5.2) was just released, bringing back some more features along with some other fixes apparently.
 
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