Skype for iphone 4 review7/26/2023 ![]() Nor do you see the status of voice messages, call forwarding, or Skype Wi-Fi. For example, there are no longer entries for your Skype Number (the number that people can use to call you from standard phones). The design of the Profile page is more pleasing and cleaner than in the older version, but it doesn't include a couple of helpful entries that were formerly present. Sitting steadily at the bottom of all these screens are two buttons-one for the dial pad and one for chat. If you need to find someone from your list of contacts, People is the place, and Favorites offers large tiles for easy access to the most important people in your world. Now they slide back and forth smoothly and naturally. Navigation between each section is more elegant than in the previous version, which snapped from view to view with no visual transition. I usually leave the app on the Recent view, since that's where I can keep up with ongoing interactions. Instead, you swipe through three main views to start communicating-People, Recent, and Favorites-or check out your own profile page from its icon at top right. ![]() Interface As with the previous Skype iPhone app, there's no true home page. Unlimited calling plans start at $2.99 a month and pay-as-you go is 2.3 cents a minute for the U.S, but SMS messages are actually a bit pricey at 11.2 cents each. You don't need to enter credit card info to sign up, but if you do, you can avail yourself of things like cheap calls to regular phones (either using pay-as-you-go Skype Credit or a subscription), SMS messaging, and low-cost access to public Wi-Fi hotspots. Getting Started with Skype for iPhone To create a Skype account, you can either fill out a form requiring name, email, country, and language, or you can just use your Facebook or Microsoft Account credentials (such as an account). The newly redesigned Skype app for iPhone supports most (though not all) of the service's capabilities in a highly usable, intuitive design. You can even get an incoming phone number through Skype that works with standard mobiles and landlines. Maybe that explains why the service recently passed two billion talk minutes a day among its 300-million-plus users. Is anyone else having this problem? I've even contemplated installing an older version through some hack I found but it is time consuming to get it done.Skype is also available for any platform you can think of: Android, Blackberry, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, and many smart TVs. It used to work just fine before they did the UI changes and then undid them. I've tried restarting the phone and again no difference. I was running 6.8 but I've gone to the app store and installed the latest version, 6.12 for my OS and no difference. I've send feedback to Microsoft through the app a version or two ago, nothing. I am NOT getting a new phone just for Skype but I've got credit through Skype Out and need to be able to use it. It says it is ringing, and the audio ringing is playing but then the call is answered while it still says it is ringing and playing the ringing tone.Įven the audio is breaking up and parts are coming through out of order! Even calling the test service makes it behave oddly. At least if Skype behaved itself it would be some consolation but even that being active is completely useless. I've tried killing all other apps with no difference. Even volume controls take seconds to respond!! I mean the whole OS is completely unresponsive. ![]() Unfortunately, the last few versions of Skype are killing the phone. It does, until now, what I need it to do so I've not upgraded. ![]()
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