Skype for the iPhone
If you area an iPhone user (I am) and an avid Skype user (our business has been communicating with skype for well over 5 years) you will be pleased to hear that there is finally a Skype app for the iPhone. This was released today (3/31/2009).
Skype has arrived for the iPhone and iPod touch.
I put it through a couple of test calls and it performed well. My main desire is to utilize the text chat client. When using Skype on a desktop, that is the function that I utilize most often.
Rumor has it that Ebay is readying Skype for a spin off or sale. This, along with the support of the SIP protocol announced this week, should be a nice user base generator for the company. You never know, maybe Ebay is going to recoup some of the $2.6+ billion that they shelled out for the company a few years back.
BTW: Support for the SIP protocol will allow Skype to be used on PBX systems. This will be a revenue generator for the company. We procured an additional phone number recently and were disappointed to find that we could not use Skype with the hardware we had in place. Support for SIP would allow us to do that.
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