CoolSmartPhone.com – New version of Skype for Pocket PC released

Aug 16, 2006 | blog

So Skype seems to have released a new version of the Pocket PC interface to their service (though I believe its actually in beta yet).  Though they have not worked on reducing the system requirements so all us HTC Wizard users can use the software, they have several new features.

Among the changes:

  • feature: Multi-chat support
  • feature: SkypeIn support
  • feature: Voicemail support
  • feature: Call forwarding support
  • feature: Profile editing
  • feature: Detailed search
  • feature: Contact list information with avatar and mood messages support
  • feature: Improved chat-more emoticons and ‘set topic’ ability
  • feature: Animated emoticons
  • feature: Skype Launcher
  • feature: GSM and Skype callsmanagement
  • feature: Larger Dial Pad and delete button in Dial Pad
  • feature: Online help
  • feature: One click access to Skype from the device home screen
  • change: Contact list sorting
  • bugfix: Saved SkypeOut contacts are shown without their name in the Log tab
  • bugfix: VM sender Skype name is displayed instead of the real name
  • bugfix: Chat partner username instead of the real name displayed in tab head
  • bugfix: ‘Clear Log’ doesn’t work for unknown SI call
  • bugfix: Call duration is only in minutes:seconds
  • bugfix: Search enabled while offline
  • bugfix: ‘Hold’ is enabled, when the call is already on hold
  • bugfix: Call ‘hold’ is allowed before call is answered
  • bugfix: ‘Hold’ reminds checked with new conference call
  • bugfix: Possible to send just space in chat
  • bugfix: Overlapped notifications on Start tab
  • bugfix: Contact names are overlapped in Contact list
  • bugfix: Allow calls and allow chats menus are empty while signed out
  • bugfix: Scrollbar doesn’t reach the end in Call log
  • bugfix: Selected privacy option not updated first time
  • bugfix: Title bar notifications are not removed after signing out
  • bugfix: Incoming chat will create notification when some dialog is open
  • bugfix: Offline icon changes to pending for contact who hasn’t been online for a long time
  • bugfix: Call duration is delayed for longer calls while browsing other programs at the same time

Link to CoolSmartPhone.com – New version of Skype for Pocket PC released

Skype-out free ’till year-end?

May 15, 2006 | blog

Did anyone else get an email message from Skype this afternoon indicating that a number of calls were going to be free through the end of this year. If the call originates in the US/Canada and is directed to any US/Canada Landline, Wireless, or Skype number, that it is free.

Calls to friends and family on Skype have always been free. Now we’ve made calls within the US and Canada to all phones totally free till the end of the year.

Starting from today it doesn’t matter if it’s a Skype-to-Skype call or a call to landline or mobile phone – it’s free as long as you’re calling from within the US or Canada to US or Canadian phone number.

How can we do this? Well, we hope our customers will support us by using Skype to make international calls at incredibly cheap rates, or by buying stuff from our store – like Skype Voicemail, perhaps an accessory like headphones to make using Skype even easier, or even a cool ringtone to personalize your Skype.

Very cool!

When can I use Skype

Apr 28, 2006 | blog

I can, its just that nobody I know uses Skype.  The other part of it is that I’m not a chatty person anyway – but the technology and concept is so cool to me that I wish I could.  I’ve set up an account and checked out the service, and it is really neat.

I wanted VoIP years ago when I got my first taste of it with NetMeeting.  At the time, I even tried to use it with one of those early Connectix QuickCams that you attached to the parallel port (seriously).  Now that the reality of VoIP and desktop video conferencing is nearly ubiquitous, the challenge is not as great as it once was.

So whats the next really cool, tough challenge for the technology buff to play with?

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