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Skype Officially Available For Android

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

After a lot of speculation, Arvisp writes "Skype has released an official Android version. It allows calling via 3G and WiFi." One step closer to the carriers being just... carriers.

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  1. At last! by metageek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At last! but how soon are carriers going to block its traffic?

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    metageek
    1. Re:At last! by digitalchinky · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The right decision? You actually support carriers that drip feed you bandwidth because they've long since gotten used to twisting every last cent from your wallet - just so you can have the pleasure of consuming ever decreasing amounts of a service that is active 24/7 regardless of actual use.

      Understand the tech behind the scenes and you'll be outraged - think executive golden parachutes rather than infrastructure upgrades.

      I live in some random Asian country, over 3.5G I routinely see 200+ kilobytes per second. No caps, unlimited, all for about $27 USD per month. Technology is not the problem here.

  2. So we like open source, but not open protocols? by anti-NAT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why do the slashdot crowd rally against closed and proprietary data formats like MS Word documents, but not closed and proprietary VoIP protocols?

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    The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
    1. Re:So we like open source, but not open protocols? by forkazoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why do the slashdot crowd rally against closed and proprietary data formats like MS Word documents, but not closed and proprietary VoIP protocols?

      It's not that we love closed protocols. We don't. We simply hate the phone company more.

  3. Re:Skype? have had it for over two weeks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your skype is the Verizon blessed and hobbled version. It uses Verizon voice minutes for the first leg into the cloud. Therefore it's only useful in saving on international long distance charges. This new Skype can use WiFi.