After introducing an upgrade to their iPhone app back in May that allows users to make calls over 3G, Skype are now releasing a new version of the app that offers high quality sound and supports multi-tasking. This means you can receive Skype calls while other apps are running, even when your iPhone is locked. During a call, you can keep the conversation going while... 

By Andrew Lim on Wednesday, 21st July 2010 Download – FREE When Apple announced that it was launching multitasking on the iPhone we got very excited. One of the main reasons we wanted multitasking was so that we could run instant messaging apps in the background. Today Skype updated... 

Here’s something to send a chill down Microsoft’s spine… Skype, the world’s largest VoIP provider, has revealed a hugely cautious attitude to developing a mobile version of its software for Windows Phone 7. Speaking at an event in Sydney, the company’s VP for Asia Pacific Dan Neary was quoted as saying: “[it is] not developing software for the new Windows... 

The app will allow full use of Skype for free calls to other Skype users and cheap calls and texts to other mobile users abroad. Calls are made using Wi-Fi or a mobile data connection, not a dial-up system as used with 3, with additional support for instant messaging and file sharing. Phone calls can be received using a Skype online number, and the phone book is shared with the existing handset address... 

The latest version of Skype’s mobile VoIP app for Symbian S60 devices has been added to the Nokia Ovi Store, making free calls over WiFi or 3G a more viable option for the millions of handset owners out there. There are currently around 200 million Nokia phones in the world and with the Skype app they’ll now be able to send SMS messages, share images and other files,... 

By Thomas Newton on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 Nokia has just launched a free Skype app in the Ovi Store, bringing free Skype-to-Skype calls to its Symbian-based smartphones. So this equals free calls forever right? The end of mobile contracts as we know it? Not quite. Skype for Symbian will give Nokia smartphone users the opportunity to use Skype on the go over Wi-Fi or over a data connection –... 

Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. In a move which surprises literally no-one, the hottest Android handset for 2010 has been announced for yet another network, this time it’s 3 UK. The HTC Desire – a re-jig of the Google Nexus One with physical refinements and the latest version of...