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App Wednesday: Skype on Your Mobile Device
This week’s App Wednesday features a favorite of mine for great video calling and VoiP calling while on the go. I’m talking about Skype, a tool that millions of people have used for years on their computers. I have it installed on my iPhone and my iPad and it is indispensable for me. I often FaceTime, but Skype has the benefit for me that so many people already use it on their computers. With FaceTime, I can only video call people with an iOS device or if they have FaceTime on their Mac. With Skype, I can call PC users, Mac users, Android users and iOS users. Its market penetration is a real strength. Of course, market penetration alone wouldn’t make this a great app. It has to work. On my iPhone and especially on my iPad it works outstandingly. The recently launched iPad version has a great user interface, making it easy to use. Call quality is very good for both voice and video.
You can grab Skype for your iOS device here for the iPad and here for iPhone.
You can also grab the Android version here, thought I haven’t personally tested that version yet.
What Will Be Your Next Phone?
As an input to an upcoming post I have coming out this week, I wanted to get a sense from my readers as to what their next phone purchase will be. Are you a diehard Blackberry user who plans to stick with the new line of Blackberry’s? Are you waiting to make the switch to the new iPhone once the iPhone 5 is announced? Are you fed up with the locked in model and planning to jump to Google’s “open” approach? Or are these major players just not cutting it for you and you have your sites set on something entirely different?
I am interested to know! Please vote below.
