Skype for webOS 2.0 gets quick look 24
by Jonathan I Ezor Fri, 12 Nov 2010 5:51 pm EST
We have previously reported that Skype is coming to webOS 2.0 as a Verizon Wireless exclusive (at least in the U.S.). This morning, Mobiputing posted some photos of a recent preview of Skype for webOS 2.0. As is sadly the new norm with Skype on Verizon, you can make non-minutes calls to Skype users and make fairly cheap international calls, but domestic calls will simply go through Verizon's network and will use your minutes.
A couple more photos available at the source link. We assume that we'll be able to give this thing a proper go-round ourselves very soon - stay tuned!
Source: Mobiputing
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horray.... for verizon...
My smasung omnia (win 6.1)skype version on verizon allowed to make free domestic calls. Verizon always "break" phones and now applications. By the time we get flash most likely flash streaming websites will require subscription or won't work on webOS... Just depressing. I hoped at least skype would work as skype.
Since WebOS 2.0 will come to existing WebOS devices, Skype may very well be made available to all of us without the "special Verizon version" that is limited like that. Flash will also work without anything that ties it to a single provider.
Verizon may provide better service quality where I live, but they are such a sleezy company that I refuse to even consider using them as a cellular provider. I would rather go with AT&T, just because I HATE Verizon and these tricks they love to pull on their customers.
Sprint?? :(
me too :( Hold me.
Someone is bound to hack it onto sprint just like they did with the hotspot.
Use your minutes? Then what's the point? Verizon's always got to double-dip....
why can't phone companies stop making money off other's application ideas and come up with their own? No reason why this shouldn't work with just a wifi connection.
worry not, considering that its built into the main Phone app of WebOS I am sure it will be hacked to work on local calls.
why does the 'source' show WEBOS3? It's the '3' I wonder about. Is that the Skype version?
dont know where your seeing this
It's just what they named the picture on Mobiputing. Note that the other pictures are named 'skype webos1' and 'skype webos2'
thank you. I'd not noticed the other refs...
pinche sprint
Que the Sprint Cry Baby Choir.
Lol, for a second I thought that said Swype. I was like "Cool, WebOS will have Swype technology? Awesome!" That lasted all but a split second as I re-read the article title.
P.S. Guess I'm a Sprint crybaby too?
An ex-Pre owner who I work with that had made the switch to Android was raving about Swype. So I challenged him to a contest.
I asked him to type "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" (this particular sentence is well known because it uses every letter of the alphabet).
He did it in 15 seconds, but with two errors. By the time he had fixed his errors 28 seconds had elapsed.
I then started and completed it error free in 12 seconds on my Pre.
He said if the words were longer Swype would have prevailed since that's where it really pays off. But in this particular test, a physical keyboard won hands down.
*jumps...
Lol, I learned that sentence in one of those fun-logic books and used it alot while I was practicing for keyboarding class...
Right, as if people really use their phones to type out long words. You would still have beaten him if you had to type triskaidekaphobia.
At one time I used Skype alot. It came in handy to contact my friends overseas and to contact my friends here when I was overseas either in an internet cafe or with mobile wifi)
After they did their deal with Verizon and closed off their mobile versions (back then I was using Skype for WinMo 6.5), I've stopped using it. Both the desktop and mobile versions.
I can't understand a business strategy that calls ostracizes potential customers.
At one time I used Skype alot. It came in handy to contact my friends overseas and to contact my friends here when I was overseas either in an internet cafe or with mobile wifi)
After they did their deal with Verizon and closed off their mobile versions (back then I was using Skype for WinMo 6.5), I've stopped using it. Both the desktop and mobile versions.
I can't understand a business strategy that ostracizes potential customers.
And so you see why I would not switch my service to Verizon even if Verizon gets the large screen webOS phone that I desire.
Not only is its service more expensive, VZ consistently screws its customers by replacing free services and/or programs built into a phone or OS with pay only versions of its own, often inferior pay only versions.
I will switch OS's rather than go back to AT&T or over to VZ.
good, but when its that SPRINT when its gonna do something????
i think we might get skype as a at&t pre plus user. remember mobile hotspot was also verizon exclusive too, but somehow we are able to use it now :)
Although it's short sighted, I half understand why Vzw does this sort of crap. It's just like the cable company ISPs: While they won't hesitate to sell you additional services and take your money, they don't want you to think of them as a whole sale bit delivery system. It screws up their pricing models. They are all about trying add premium priced content and services to squeeze out every last dollar out of their expensive network investments. In their nightmare, I think, everyone wakes up and uses a free VOIP system on their network, and not only does it slows it down, but then avoids the main way they get their $$. I'm a VZW and Skype user, so I am happy to eventually have something rather then nothing, here, but dang, Big Red couldn't you have at least let us use regular skype over someone else's wifi nickel?