Skype 3.0 lands on Android tabs, says all your bass are belong to it Skype for Android is up to version three, promising better sound and tablet-friendly menus along with Microsoft account sign-in as Redmond continues to merge user accounts. The claim to improved sound is credible. The variability of Skype's audio makes it hard to pin down, but apparently there's a better audo codec called SILK …
Yup, landscape only... What a superb advance... *rolls eyes*
I haven't tried it in video chat yet, but I bet I can guess what happens... If I hold it landscape, I'm sideways to the other person, if I hold it portrait I look correct to them, but their picture is shown sideways to me.
I'm going to roll my eyes again because I'm going to need the rotational practise soon!
As far as contacts in my address book goes.. I'm playing with Tango to see if that is a credible alternative for my personal uses.
I'm happy to use my bundled minutes on landline calls. mostly used Skype for free Skype to Skype calls.. Losing Skype kinda fits in with the move to Suse 21.2 as my main o/s - the less redmond the better IMHO, Tango runs nicely on my cyanogen flavour droid as well.
"why MS should even bother to spend money developing free software"
One reason is that they charge for skype <=> conventional phone calls. Very reasonable price. I use it regularly to call my mother in UK from Switzerland - costs <2p /min. I see now it can be just £4/month for unlimited calls on a subscription basis (but a fair usage policy !)
Works fine on Linux - we've got a USB headset that improves the quality a lot
There are huge numbers of "Reviews" in Google Play complaining that this update has broken Skype for them. Bizarrely a number of people are saying they can't get it to work at all now, but have still given it 4 or 5 stars! I can only assume if you have previously reviewed it and then re-review it you are unable to downgrade your rating? Otherwise, people are seemingly saying it's good that it's broken!
...did my usual call to the test service - it carried on ringing even though she was giving me the spiel - then two pings about a second apart indicated that I could talk (and then stop)...
...so no change to it's behaviour from the last year or so - apart from logging in first time which it hasn't done for ages...
...and thus uninstalled (from my Wildfire)
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