Skype on Transformer

[Frigiliana]

Has anybody found any problems with Skype on the Transformer or does it work flawless ?

 

[Suntan]

Might help to expand on what features you?re interested in.

Audio calls by themselves are different than video calls.

Personally, I would be interested in knowing people?s experiences with video calling to ?regular? PCs. Namely, the ability to video call with a person on a Windows based PC. It doesn?t have to be Skype if google voice or another program works.

-Suntan

 

[scheets973]

You know I think you are not going to see skype developed to much on this platform anymore. As you may or may not know-- Microsoft just purchased skype and will be looking to leverage skypes capabilities on its windows mobile phones......

May need to look elsewhere!

 

[jcpharm]

try to use googletalk (with video) instead.

 

[Frigiliana]

It was the video calling i was most interested in as my wife and i use it a lot to see our grand children , it may seem a daft question but could i use google talk to somebody on skype or do we both have to using the same format IE skype to skype , google talk to google talk ?

 

[Suntan]

It was the video calling i was most interested in as my wife and i use it a lot to see our grand children , it may seem a daft question but could i use google talk to somebody on skype or do we both have to using the same format IE skype to skype , google talk to google talk ?

Not a daft question at all. I am curious about these things as well for the same scenario (just switched as our parents love Skype for talking to their grandchildren) and for talking to my wife when I am on business travel.

I doubt skype will play nice with goggle talk. But by setting up/signing in a google account on the PC, you should be able to use google talk between the PC and tablet. My question is, does it work, and if so how well.

Skype would be ideal, as I wouldn?t have to re-teach both sets of parents how to get into a new video chat program, but if google talk works well between tablet and computer, I?d be fine with that.

-Suntan

 

[davemacd]

You know I think you are not going to see skype developed to much on this platform anymore. As you may or may not know-- Microsoft just purchased skype and will be looking to leverage skypes capabilities on its windows mobile phones......

May need to look elsewhere!

I think this is a pretty extreme and uninformed conjecture. Microsoft develops software for nearly every platform. Andy Inhatko just said on Mac Break Weekly that some of the best Mac OSX developers work for MS developing Office for Mac. Microsoft has products on Mac and iOS, both of which are much bigger threats the MS's core business than Android. Companies don't work like you seem to suggest they do. It behooves Apple, Microsoft, Google, and everybody else to have their software working on as many platforms as possible, especially when it comes to communication apps which depend on their ability to be installed on a maximum number of devices simultaneously.

 

[scheets973]

I think this is a pretty extreme and uninformed conjecture. Microsoft develops software for nearly every platform. Andy Inhatko just said on Mac Break Weekly that some of the best Mac OSX developers work for MS developing Office for Mac. Microsoft has products on Mac and iOS, both of which are much bigger threats the MS's core business than Android. Companies don't work like you seem to suggest they do. It behooves Apple, Microsoft, Google, and everybody else to have their software working on as many platforms as possible, especially when it comes to communication apps which depend on their ability to be installed on a maximum number of devices simultaneously.

Nope Dave, many busisness's do work like that and I think you are wrong. I was just reading motley fool and they seem pretty convinced that it is going to be that scenario. You are crazy if you think microsoft is going to develop for android the way skype was prior. Sure it's "conjecture" but unless you have inside information it is all speculation... this forum is speculation. So not it does not behoove them or me to make some a glaring observation as this one...


I think you are wrong, but we shall see... i guess that remark is just conjecture =)

 

[Suntan]

FWIW, I would agree that with MS owning skype, it will be less favorable for Android devices than if they had remained independent.

Full skype capabilities on W7 phones would be a marketing wedge issue that salesmen could use to push W7 phones. Yeah, there are other video conferencing programs available, but skype is the only one that most people have ever heard of.

Just as I don?t see MS giving android phones the Xbox360 tie-ins that they are pushing so heavily on their W7 phones, neither do I see them giving skype to android ?just because.?

-Suntan

 

[scheets973]

FWIW, I would agree that with MS owning skype, it will be less favorable for Android devices than if they had remained independent.

Full skype capabilities on W7 phones would be a marketing wedge issue that salesmen could use to push W7 phones. Yeah, there are other video conferencing programs available, but skype is the only one that most people have ever heard of.

Just as I don?t see MS giving android phones the Xbox360 tie-ins that they are pushing so heavily on their W7 phones, neither do I see them giving skype to android ?just because.?

-Suntan

that is exactly my thought....at least till w7 realizes that it is going to be left behind if it does not participate with the other os's. Till that point though you will see them making a hard push for leverage.

 

[bcatalin]

Ok, so Skype is working or not for video calls on Asus TF ? Still don't know that. Can anyone confirm ?

 

[Derzed]

I have not been able to get it to work for video calls.

 

[VydorScope]

I have it installed, but I dunno anyone to call LOL

 

[Mac58]

Goggle talk works great for me. Audio and picture quality is pretty good. No HD video calling as of yet B-) but it is pretty awesome in my experience.