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- nottanner, on 10/10/2007, -15/+111And there it is, the future of cell phones realized.
- ToxicBomber, on 10/10/2007, -13/+106...did the ground just suddenly get colder?
- CLShortFuse, on 10/10/2007, -2/+75Out of the 26 comments above mine, only one read the article. Good job guys!
This is Skype IM not Skype Voice. - ha1f, on 10/10/2007, -11/+73My n800 has real skype. cool.
- Lane, on 10/10/2007, -8/+56and as a bonus your calls are now encrypted and running through a proxy in Germany Hurray!
- mzander09, on 10/29/2007, -6/+51You hear that At&T, suck it.
- Gymbo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+40a internet company has no country
- ToxicBomber, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Well Comcast owns most of this place, so its not really that hard
- drlha, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24Right, so totally ***** useless then! Who uses Skype for its IM capabilities?
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24How did you get internet access in Hell? Isn't that against the regulations down there?
- dannysun, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Because what else are they going to do with the iPhones they bought on eBay.
- joerod, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19every wifi enabled cell phone should be able to run skype, its great for the consumer. of course the carriers hate it but they love charging $2 for 15 second ring tones...
- shealer, on 10/10/2007, -6/+23Question is, why is a company in Germany doing this, when the iPhone hasn't even been released in Europe yet?
- PeoplePeople, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18To make money
- Jozer99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Its just a callback service:
You sign in on their website. Their server signs in to your skype account. When your skype account gets a call, their server forwards it to your cell phone. When you "send" a call to a skype member, your phone calls their server, which forwards the call to the skype number.
You can tell this is how it works because their client doesn't need Wifi to operate (not to mention its a website,not an application). EDGE might be barely able to handle the bandwidth necessary for a Skype conversation, but GPRS certainly isn't, and unless you live in a big city or suburban area, you won't get good EDGE reception. - jonknee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12No, IM+ is an IM product. You can send Skype IMs with this website, not Skype calls.
- jonknee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10They don't. They send IMs.
- wyrlor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Damn, did I miss the memo, or what the ***** are you talking about? The Skype In and Skype Out services were never mean to be free.
- cbreaker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9They wouldn't do that if people stopped buying them. It's ridiculous that people are willing to pay that kind of money for something so stupid.
- drlha, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12I'm guessing this works like Jajah right? Where they call your phone to establish the Skype connection? If so this really makes the whole usefulness of Skype on a handset (i.e. that calls are either cheap or free) moot, as you have to pay for incoming calls in the USA on a cell phone.
- adude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Can someone give clear evidence that this isn't voice? Because here http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/details.php?product=skype&platform=iphone it says "IM+ for Skype is a web service that enables voice and text communication with other Skype users and provides cost-effective calling to landlines and mobiles." and "Pure Skype quality with no extra voice delays" and "IM+ for Skype is based on SkypeOut service that allows users to make and receive calls for a low fee. Save Even More with Call Back by using any landline number instead of mobile" and the picture of the iPhone says "IM+ for Skype"
So either this website isn't updated (I'm suspicious of the &platform=iphone... hopefully they didn't just keep the same text as other phones and just change the pic) or it can do voice through callbacks? Because a website definitely can't access the iPhone mic...
This seem shady to me... - vvaduva, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9it's bad enough when people use French words...it's worse when they mispell them.
- rickolus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Sky is ridiculously cheaper than at&t calling plans. Especially if you only used the iphone with a data plan or make a lot of calls outside the US.
- audiologic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7For those of us that don't want to hack our phones...
- cbreaker, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Then you'd use your cell phone..
But when you DO have internet access, you can make calls to anywhere for basically free. No minutes, no crap. - griz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Wow, didn't take long for that site to die.
- ha1f, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6skype is closed source, smartass...
- suhailrehman, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12Not a big deal - any symbian s60 or UIQ-based phone can use a free skype client called Fring availble to phones with EDGE/3G, it's been out for over a year.
FYI - it takes a 3G connection for a good conversation on Skype over a Mobile phone. EDGE (which is the maximum that an iPhone supports) gives a latency of around 1-1.5 sec. Personally tested using Fring on a Nokia 6630. - serpentor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Why digg him down? This is the whole reason why I (thankfully) turned off comment thresholds. Too many posts with actual information being dugg down for no apparent reason other than people disagree (read - childlike fanboyism). I can't count the number of worthwhile posts I would've missed if I still had the over-0 comment filter on.
- cheesy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Uhhh, from the TFA it sounds like all you can do is send text message / instant messages / whatever messages. No voice. This isn't truly "Skype on iPhone"... no digg for the misleading title and lack of actual news.
There's NO WAY to do voice through the browser alone, it's simply not possible without some sort of plugin. MAYBE you could get streaming audio through the QuickTime capability, but there's no access to the microphone so you would be limited to listening to voicemail (which would actually be pretty useful itself)
Come back when you have real news, like a full Skype voice client. - DigDugDigger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Take that NSA Warrentless Wiretapping!
bah the encryption probably been broken long ago by them anyway :( but still I like the idea of having choice at least. - AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You must work for AT&T huh?
- tnoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5But does it have an Apple logo?
- Jozer99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Skype works on the N800, not the N770. I've tried it and failed.
- Takuro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yep. Hence why you have to provide your cell # so that people can call you back after you send a TEXT message. :P
It's Digg. People see "Skype" + "iPhone" and go "Oooo... fun... must press Digg button 50x." - skyshock1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Don't forget text messaging that's 1/20th the bandwidth of a voice call yet costs 20x as much per byte.
- jonknee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4VoIP doesn't work through HTML and AJAX there chap. This website just lets you send IMs. Voice connectivity would have to be through a phone call.
- Lazyboy0172, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I thought it was a joke until I saw "no, seriously" in the title. Thanks!!!
- mzander09, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I just paid or 3 months of skype for only 8.95, I can call unlimited.
- jonknee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Seriously, have you never used a cell phone before? Almost all phones in the US can do IM. Natively, without crazy hacks. Any smartphone and most feature phones can handle 3rd party apps (without hacks) if there are better IM options out there. Skype makes a native client for Windows Mobile, so you can send all the IMs you want for free. Oh and make voice calls which is what everyone uses Skype for in the first place.
My Nokia N80 has a client for the Gizmo project on it, I can connect to a WiFi network and right in the phonebook have access to my Gizmo list and make/receive calls (even IMs like this stupid Skype website). For free. It's supported by Nokia, not some boot strapped hack.
T-Mobile has its @Home service that lets users make unlimited UMA calls for $9.99 a month. It will seamlessly switch you between the cell network and your WiFi network when in range, and back again when you leave range. The iPhone can't do anything remotely similar.
So a website that can send IMs with Skype is not in any way a nail in a coffin. - vvaduva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They are not in the business of blocking websites....plus they would face lawsuits and a serious backlash should they do so.
- stalefries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That's because there were a ton of people using the Apple Store computers as MySpace terminals.
- kiensoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You all are aware this only work to IM through Skype right? No VOIP with the iPhone.
- imitrust, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In Australia, my N95 has 1000 skype minutes for $20
- victorycig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Right, the iPhone is very directly targeted at cellular users as a mobile phone, rather than as a mini computer, even though it has OS X and advanced graphics capabilities. Wifi isn't widespread right now, so cellular acces is a big part of the iPhone's functionality now. As fast, public wifi networks become ubiquitous, VoIP will become increasingly important, and will probably be integrated in future versions of many mobile devices. Like the Google Phone, for example.
- Jrr6415sun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2you know apple is the main cause of this, they could have opened up the iphone, but they had to be greedy and partner with AT&T. They don't want to open the iphone because then people would just use skype. And that wouldn't be good, because apple gets revenue from AT&T monthly subscriptions.
- flashback99, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3easy on the nitrous there buddy
- drlha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Also, I assumed it was a call back service because they ask for your cell phone number when you log in. Why do they do this if its just a web based IM client?
- halik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Exactly... I'm just trying to point out the absurdity in calling asynchronous http + JS an 'SDK'
Lack of basic knowledge of computer technology... please. - Billions, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Well, it's a big deal because now you can (allegedly) do it on an iPhone. This 'could do it a year ago' thing can't really be considered a valid argument because the iPhone just came out a month ago. If it had come out at the same time as Series60 phones, then I would accept that arguement.
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