Is Skype on Symbian ready? Yes, says a news source, but.
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Yesterday, Skype announced it’s going to be a de facto service in Hutchinson/Three cellphones. Skype, a native application on Symbian-powered Nokia N73? We were musing on an eventual announcement, a bigger one, as it would impact on more cellphones, the announcement of the Skype VoIP client ready for Symbian phones. But Skype’s boss Niklas Zennstrom kept his mouth shut about it during the keynote.
Our guess was somewhat followed through.
“Industry observers were therefore supposed to surmise from the fact that the X-Series is only available on the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson W950, that there must be a Symbian client available. And only for the N73.”
“The Inquirer checked with Skype and a spokesbod said, ‘This [news] release was issued by Hutchison, not Skype.’ So he effectively confirmed it. But, obviously, there’s no news as to when existing Symbian phone users might get their hands on the Skype client software.”
But in the same time, another press release elbows this deduction. iSkoot, a VoIP software company based in Massachusetts and certified by Skype, claims its application is buried inside the Nokia phones compatible with the Three X-Series offering. Each time a user makes a VoIP call, the phone accesses the iSkoot network before ringing the Skype receiver.
Still according to the press release: Through iSkoot, future 3 X-Series customers should already access to SkypeOut. But Zennstrom yesterday denies this, saying SkypeIn and SkypeOut would be available by next year only.
So what’s going on? Is Skype on Symbian ready to launch? Did Hutchinson get confused on how Skype calls would be routed? Is Skype bundle natively or just come through another pipe? Stay tuned, the hunt has just begun.
Nov 17, 2006 | By Nuno
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In your ‘hunt’, please make sure to check who is paying for the cellular call TO & FROM the iSkoot gateway servers
Bob, we weren’t in a hunt, really. And to make it clear twice, there wasn’t really a doubt about iSkoot powering the Skype on the Nokia 73. iSkoot won’t dish up a press release claiming they don’t do. But the Inquirer just pinpoints a little misunderstanding in the Hutchinson X-Series launch.
I think that this whole problem of getting skype for symbian is purely political. Symbian skype would be devastating for tele operators, thats why we are not geting skype on symbian…
Skype on Symbian is already here
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