Skype for your mobile Beta 2
This beta’s a bit different to the one Mike was talking about last week. Today’s release is rather more pocket sized, and encompasses a number of improvements to Skype for your mobile.
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We’ve added support for 30 new mobiles
Adding to our original list of 50, we’ve updated the software so it’s compatible with the latest handsets – including the Nokia N82, Sony Ericsson w890, Samsung U900 and the Motorola Razr2 V9.
The newly supported handsets are:
Motorola v6maxx, L9, Razr2 V9
Nokia 5310, 5610, 6300, E61, N70, N72, N73, N76, N78, N81, N82
Samsung G600, G800, U600, U900
Sony Ericsson c702, c902, k660, k770, k850i, w580, w660i, w760, w890, w910, w980, z770
You can also check to see whether your mobile’s compatible on the Skype for your mobile page.
Make calls using Skype for your mobile in Australia and New Zealand
Great news for antipodeans – you can now make Skype-to-Skype calls and call landlines and mobiles around the world at Skype’s low rates from your mobile phone. From today, you can make calls using Skype for your mobile in Australia and New Zealand.
For the full list of supported countries, visit the Skype for your mobile page.
Easier downloads
We’ve made it easier to download Skype for your mobile – now all you need to do is give us your mobile number on this page and we’ll send you an SMS with the right download link absolutely free of charge.
Visit the Skype for your mobile page to get started, and let us know what you think 
hi peter,
i’m getting “authorisation failed” installation error on n95 8gb after you choose “replace 0.09 ” aka beta1. any thoughts?
hi,
you are getting “authorization failed” error most probably because you have signed version of Skype mobile application installed, but latest version is unsigned (because necessary root certificates are missing for many phones and this blocks installing Skype mobile application)
please delete old version and go to http://www.skype.com/m to download latest version.
how about for the iPhone?
Indeed, when will you launch a proper Skype client for the iPhone? Isn’t it about time already?
After install application just freezes on the language selection screen. Tried downloading and installing again, same problem.
YOU FAIL!
iphone! Iphone!! IPHONE!!!
Please add an app to the iphone! I have already used TRUPHONE. It works great but it doe not allow incoming calls. I want my skype on my iphone!!
Hi Peter,
I have downloaded ‘Skype for mobile’ for Nokia E61 and successfully installed it ot Nokia E51. It works fine! Please add E51 to your list of supported mobiles.
Cheers.
Hi Peter and other Skype Staff,
Thanks for all the work you guys are putting in! My only suggestion (or request) would be to write the iPod Touch into Skype Mobile (or on its own Skype program). My friends and I (college students) have too high phone bills. Adding skype to an ipod touch would allow many people to get on a skype subscription, save our money, and contribute to Skype’s revenues!
Cheers
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your response to my post on the use of Skype for Mobiles and Three mobiles free Skype minutes (http://www.decoder.com.au/2008/10/13/3mobile-skype-users-beware-free-skype-minutes-has-limitations).
It is disappointing that Three mobile donot allow users to utilise their free Skype minutes via 3rd party Skype clients such as Fring of the Skype for Mobiles Beta. Both of these clients are far more powerful and feature rich applications than the “supported” 3 Skype client.
Hopefully in the future this will change and Three subscribers will have greater choice in how they make Skype calls.
Cheers,
Decoder
I successfully downloaded the Skype app into my Nokia E61 and it worked fine, BUT: THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT WHAT I EXPECTED. I do not understand why Skype would develop a software that is merely an interface, way less advanced than third-party applications such as Fring, using the phone resource of a smartphone to make the calls instead of end-to-end VOIP. Both the phones’ hardware and OS support it, Skype users have been using it for a long time and 3G networks are fast enough. Why use a local landline number then?
I’ve been using Skype for years now, plus some of its services such as Skype-in and PRO, always surprised by the new services and features brought by Skype, but now I am just way too disappointed with this Skype for mobile.
I guess I’ll just have to go back to good old Fring until Skype developers understand the real need of their customers.
It seems that there is no response for the Iphone solution. I would like to have Skype on my iphone.
I figured that it would have been easier to do so on the iphone.
I am a bit confused about the use of Skype on WiFi mobiles. From all the comments it seems that it always connects to the GSM network, and charges you the rates of your local mobile operator plus the fixed line costs for skype international calls. My idea is to use the WiFi capabilities of the mobile, and use skype as if I am on my laptop, i.e. talk to skype contacts for free and make long distance calls for the skype cost without geting involved my mobile operator (only my IP provider with the monthly flat rate). Is this possible? Does it works for Nokia N81? What are the limitations of skype for mobiles compared to skype for PC?
iPhone! iPhone too!
Please native Skype client on the iPhone, you are going to see 6 million downloads
hi everyone im i missing the point whats the benefit of skype mobile when i have to use my inclusive minutes to use skype may aswell just use inclusive minutes to make the call anyway
You can use Skype for your Mobile to call friends and family abroad – so saving you money
Thanks for all the hard work, but please, listen to all of us on this blog. All we’re asking for is a mobile Skype version that can make free Skype to Skype calls as well as paid Skype in and Skype out calls though Wi-Fi or 3G. How difficult can this be? Don’t wait until the competition plows you under. We deserve it!
Hi Peter and team.
Can you please provide support for Sony Ericsson TM506 on T Mobile USA. This is a hot selling phone in USA and users would love to have Skype on the mobile. I downloaded the Skype version for Z770 as it looks close to TM506 but it didn’t work.
Thanks
Ramachari
I have skype in italy, and on my mobile phone it says I cannot make calls in this region. I can chat, but not make calls. That seems silly. Fring can do it with skype, why can’t skype on skype?
I have a N95, I love Skype and have used it for years. I switched to Skype-in and Skype-out for my office numbers, since it’s so useful to have your office number ring on your laptop where ever you happen to be. This product is a cruel travesty, a nihilistic comedy, a tragically ironic misfit riddle. It is a misplaced lighthouse that leads ships to the rocks. It is a desperate breath of helium given to a suffocating man. It is a mirage in the desert. This is a product which gives you so much hope and then brutally crushes it. Nowhere does it say that it makes only calls which your phone can already make, using your Skype credit as well as your phone talk time. It is a product which has no purpose that sounds and looks like a product that is desperately needed and desired. Sell a copy of Skype for N95, I’d buy it, even if it only worked over wifi. I’d pay at least €25 for REAL Skype for mobile (fring has too much delay in the call to be useful.) Please stop distributing this sad program.
It’s incredible how skype haven’t thought in iPhone users yet!!!!!!!!
Hey skype, it’s time to do it, ugh?? As you can see, there’s millions of people asking for it in several blogs, webpages… What are you waiting for? What’s up? You better say something to iPhone users who are waiting for an answer. PLEASEEEE
Hello Peter et al,
I have a Samsung U900 mobile. When I visi skype.com/m, it says my phone is not compatible with Skype for mobile. Could you please help? Thanks in advance. Reaksmey
Hi Peter!
I`m braziliam, and I used Skype since 2005. So, today I need Spype-to-skype for a Samsung Jet S8000, but don’t exist yet?
What plans to have skype for Jet?
I go to Australia in April, and the skype be very useful.
I have several friends who have the Jet and also want skype.
Thank’s for your atencion.
Best regards,
Felipe
When I try download Skype on my Sony Ericsson C702 it says, no version for my mobile. here says it should be one for me: Sony Ericsson c702, c902, k660, k770, k850i, w580, w660i, w760, w890, w910, w980, z770 Can you help me?
Thank you
Hey, i’ve been trying to get skype version on my samsung jet s8003, but couldnt find any suitable version. Can you please help or guide me with the steps because it will be great if i can finally get a usefull link to download! I really need skype on my phone! please reply. Thank you and best regards