Skype available!!!

**Slapnpop826** · 04-11-2011, 03:53 PM

According to Droid-Life

**Upstreammiami** · 04-11-2011, 03:57 PM

yup yup

**zachnelson** · 04-11-2011, 03:59 PM

downloading now, ill give it a test

**INK** · 04-11-2011, 04:03 PM

This was on my tbolt wishlist

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**willis936** · 04-11-2011, 04:06 PM

Thread title gave me a farting heart attack. I'll test it as soon as I can.

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**INK** · 04-11-2011, 04:09 PM

Its official

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**Lynner** · 04-11-2011, 04:11 PM

Anyone else have it force close when trying to sync with existing contacts?

**dseiden** · 04-11-2011, 04:15 PM

Tested and works great.. Too bad it is only on Verizon LTE phones (which seems to only be 1). Wonder if they will allow this on the Xoom when it gets the upgrade.

**willis936** · 04-11-2011, 04:21 PM

It works on 3g? Quality is acceptable? People can understand you?

Holy crap this is the coolest thing since sliced bread.

**bjboucher** · 04-11-2011, 04:21 PM

Awesome news! Really can't wait to pick my Thunderbolt up on Friday!

**akira751** · 04-11-2011, 04:22 PM

I get a parse error.

**potatolover1102** · 04-11-2011, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by INK

Its official

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Technically it is not official as the app to download there is the normal skype mobile with "video coming soon". The app from droid life is the video one and is not available officially yet.

**phoenixone** · 04-11-2011, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by gshocker

Tested and works great.. Too bad it is only on Verizon LTE phones (which seems to only be 1). Wonder if they will allow this on the Xoom when it gets the upgrade.

Originally Posted by potatolover1102

Technically it is not official as the app to download there is the normal skype mobile with "video coming soon". The app from droid life is the video one and is not available officially yet.

Ok, which is it? We got one that says it works great, and another that says it's not officially available yet. *Scratches head*.

**zachnelson** · 04-11-2011, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by phoenixone

Ok, which is it? We got one that says it works great, and another that says it's not officially available yet. *Scratches head*.

I downloaded the one from droid life, works great over Wifi

**Bobman** · 04-11-2011, 04:36 PM

Hmm, app runs fine and when I try to video call to a Mac running skype the video preview shows up but when the person answers the video shuts off. I can't see their video and they can't see mine. Guess it still isn't there yet? Being blocked until "official"?

**tekhna** · 04-11-2011, 04:40 PM

Don't want to know what this is going to do to the battery, running in the background.

**potatolover1102** · 04-11-2011, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by phoenixone

Ok, which is it? We got one that says it works great, and another that says it's not officially available yet. *Scratches head*.

What I mean is maybe the one from droid life is a different version than the "official" one because on the Skype site it says no video yet but the one on droid life has video, although I have not tested it yet. Can anyone see the file size difference or software version from the Skype site and from droid life?

**Upstreammiami** · 04-11-2011, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by zachnelson

I downloaded the one from droid life, works great over Wifi

you make it sound like iphone yuk please say over 4g

**blueyzfr6** · 04-11-2011, 04:43 PM

I tried it with my sis and it's BADA$$!!!!!

**FutureTBoltOwner** · 04-11-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by tekhna

Don't want to know what this is going to do to the battery, running in the background.

I noticed this as well, but you can make it completely stop by going to the options in skype and telling it to sign you out ... take not putting your status as offline does not keep it from running in the background as the little S symbol will still be up in the notification bar at the top left, so make sure you completely sign out if you don't want it to be running in the background, its off when the little S disappears.

**upz3** · 04-11-2011, 04:54 PM

So happy, planning to test as soon as I can.

**alpinem3#ac** · 04-11-2011, 05:00 PM

Soooooo..........Thumbs up or down on the Droid Life version of Skype?? Currently using Tango and works great (for the most part).

**phoenixone** · 04-11-2011, 05:13 PM

Can someone be so kind to direct me to the link on how to download and install apk files? Noob here and I searched the forums for apk and found nothing. Thanks!

**RichardClark** · 04-11-2011, 05:13 PM

Anyone else paranoid about installing a big name, highly anticipated app that mysteriously appears outside of the Market on an anonymous downloading site from an unknown source?

**bjboucher** · 04-11-2011, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by phoenixone

Can someone be so kind to direct me to the link on how to download and install apk files? Noob here and I searched the forums for apk and found nothing. Thanks!

Found this link as I was wondering the same thing: