Skype 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch out now
We’ve updated our iPhone app – you can now make video calls.
Some of you may have seen update notifications in iTunes or on the App Store on your device, but for those of you who haven’t – Skype 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch is now available for download.
New languages
Skype for iPhone speaks your language – it’s now available in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish and Traditional Chinese as well as English.
Voicemail and SMS
We’ve listened to your feedback – Skype for iPhone now lets you listen to your Skype voicemail while you’re on the move, as well as send super low-cost SMSs to friends and family around the world.
… and more
Additionally, we’ve made some improvements to the look and feel, particularly when calling phones using the dial pad.
So – what are you waiting for? Download the update in iTunes, or launch the App Store on your device and tap Updates to grab the latest version.
Note: This version requires iPhone OS 2.2 or 3.0. If you’re still using iPhone OS 2.1 or 2.0, you’ll need to update to 3.0 in order to run Skype 1.1 for iPhone – it’s free (for iPhone users) and easy to do. Skype for iPhone is not supported on devices running modified versions of iPhone OS.
In its present form Skype on the iPhone is only useful for outgoing communication. It cannot receive messages or calls unless the app is actually running. People don’t use iPhones like that.
Push notification would mean that the phone can both send AND receive messages. Suddenly the app would become genuinely useful. And that would bring many new users to Skype.
All I need now is PUSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! For the love of all things Skype, tell us when we can expect it!
Oh, and one more thing. It seems that I can listen to voicemails on my iPod Touch when I have the headset plugged in. However when they aren’t plugged in I would expect to hear it on the external speakers. Not so much. It looks like it’s playing the message, but I hear nothing. Is this normal?
Push is by far the most important missing feature for us as well. Thanks for listening.
As all the others… PUSH is the one feature that NEEDS to be added in 1.2.
Thanks for the great APP!
From my side, being running around with 2 phones, it’s either push on the iphone (much preferred) or skype for the blackberry (with push off course) to make skype my second communication method. Email is available 24/7, the phone itself is. Now IM…
So pleeeeaaaasssseee
Please give us PUSH notifications!
Come on guys. We really need push.
hi, i bought a headset on the skype shop for my iTouch, thinking i could use it to make skype calls. Now that i ave the headset- there is no microphone capability though the headphones do work. ive checked the website and they aren’t mac compatible!! what headset/microphone works with the itouch??? please
@jackigil – The Apple Store (and my local Target) sells “Earphones with Remote and Mic”. Essentially looks like the earphones that came with the touch, but has a mic built into the cord for the right earphone. Has a middle button that starts/stops music playback, and plus/minus buttons to control the volume. The middle button does not answer a Skype call, however. Best solution I’ve found so far unfortunately.
I am a new user to the iPhone, have been using Skype on a Nokia handset till date where it let me do a few things that i prefered Skype for, but since i haev switched over to Skype i have found that i can only use chat and make calls using my credit ONLY!!!
What if i need to call any contacts that i have online???
I get an error stating that Skype will not allow calls on 3G due to contractual obligatins, could some one help me understand what they are? and will i be able to make calls to my contacts in the near future?
The lack of push notification support in Skype for iPhone has forced me to look elsewhere. I can´t believe Skype wasn´t able to implement this imperative feature after more than 6 months in which iPhone OS 3.0 was available to developers. Skype is obviously not interested in the iPhone platform. I will be back using Skype whenever they respond to customers needs and demands.
This is ridiculous !
Yeah, so Push … before 2010?
Is it possible to allow skype to continue to operate while the unit is “locked”?
I’d be thrilled just to be able to listen to music (screen locked, skype as active program) when I’m waiting for a call / chat.
Maybe offer choices/volume for ring (in settings)?
Ever comment is about Push. For fucks sake, come on guys release this shit already.
Please add push notification.
Please give us Push notifications in Skype for iPhone. The most missing feature!!
I use Skype mostly for chat and a background notification for chat would be very very nice.
I really don’t use Skype on the iPhone since push notifications is missing…
Push! Nuff said.
I would actually start paying to use this service if I could get push notifications of incoming text and voice calls.
Push! I really need Skype on the move to stay in touch with people on the other side of the globe and for that I and many others are waiting for push notifications. It should be the number one priority for the Skype iPhone-developers since the app works fine otherwise.
So please bring us push notifications!
I am done with Skype for Iphone app. I am calling internationally and paying the rates for calling my family but I can’t talk for a minute straight I have more a more dropped calls every single time I use it. I am standing next to my wireless router and have at least 4 dropped calls in a minute… It’s been getting worst every time. Once my balance is over I am uninstalling Skype and going back to phone cards!!
Push Please!
dont worry abt the push……just install fring which supports push notification….and fring supports skype, msn, yahoo and other messenger as well…..i haven tried it yet……but worth trying…jus hav a look……
I love using Skype, but definitely need ‘push’ with the iPhone app!
Push notification! Come on guys, it’s the way to go to sell Skype for iPod Touch as a replacement to phones!! This feature and the new auto wi-fi login provided in the 3.0 software would be the killer combo to make sales explode
You really need push notifications in order to make sense on the iPhone …
Also in addition to that, landscape keyboard would be great!
And one more … Push notifications are missing!!!
We need Push notifications! I’ve been waiting for about 2 weeks now to purchase a skype-in number and use the push capability with my ipod touch. You guys really need to implement it or at least make an official statement, otherwise people will find a solution elsewhere.
I already commented earlier, but I didn’t explicitly state my feelings regarding push:
Please provide PUSH!!!
… and landscape keyboard as well. You developer guys are using 3.0 right? Lets start using the features!!
Yeah, my wife and I just signed up for Skype and use it on our iPhones. It solves one big problem for us: being able to make calls from an area where there is zero cell coverage – a place in the country where we spend our weekends.
Now, we’d use it even more if we could RECEIVE phone calls as well. Of course, I mean without having to have the Skype app open at all times which is obviously not practical.
So, yes, count us as MUST HAVE PUSH. Please!
Phoning home to the UK from Japan for free is the best – would be better with push but as long as I can find hotspots I’m happy!
push please! incoming calls are lost without it!
Dear Peter
I am in Egypt and used skype lately to call friends in USA on my iPhone 3g os3
quality is good and everything ok
aside from this nasty absence of push (which I think is ridiculous) and skype excecutive should stop this intimidating “wait and see” policy which serves nothing but to down their credits especially in a fast growing business of it and dsl and of course the smartphones in at least my 70 millions country ( I hope they recon that)
having said that I appreciate ur excellent service and have some other complaint which is when I put my original ears microphones the sound quality immediately is changed to worse on the other end only. I hear him good but he complains that something has gone wrong. I then remove the earphones and immediately the response is “that is much better”. I can not figure out the reason since these are still brand u and it works good on cellular networks
hope u could help (my friend is talking on his pc using headsets)
another question that occured to my and sorry for saying it without being sure, does this delay in making push has to do with the ad that saw many months on the new Samsung iPhone that has Skype be configured automatically as the iry network when used in wifi areas and if no wifi it automaticlly use the cellular networks?
just a PUSH notification for incoming chat message… then skype for iphone will be useful as a 2-way communication app. Please just add the most basic PUSH ASAP, then worry about gilding any other new features!
Push notification support (especially for incoming calls) would be terrific. Thanks.
Hi Peter. As a paying Skype subscriber, having push notifications on the iphone app would make this even better. I currently use skype when I work from home and it’d be great if I could tell my coworkers to call my skype # directly instead of having to keep the skype app running all the time. Thank you.
Hi Peter,
We need Push Notifications very very badly
We use and love the Skype iPhone app but the lack of notifications are a serious problem. The iPhone platform now does have support for push notifications. I would like to state the business requirement in this fashion:
1) The user should have two settings named something like: “Be notified about incoming calls” and “Be notified about incoming message” that he can switch to On or Off.
2) If the setting is Off, which could be the default, then the iPhone app does not need to subscribe to Push notifications at all.
3) If the setting is On, then:
3a) If the user receives a chat message, then regardless of the application the user is currently running, a message window should pop up with the first few words of the message and with two buttons, Ignore or Go to Chat. Touching the latter button will launch the Skype application and take the user to the relevant Conversation window.
3b) If the user receives an incoming voice call, then regardless of the application the user is currently running, a message window should pop up with two buttons: Answer and Decline. Clicking on the former button should launch the Skype application and begin the voice call.
Okay, I’m pretty technically savvy, but I can’t figure out a way to go to my home page from Skype and NOT sign out of Skype!! I want it up and running at all times!! Can anyone help, or is this something unavoidable right now???
I currently am using skype on my iPhone while abroad and availing of the free hotel wifi for calls. Is there a way to activate skype directly from a highlighted number on a web page/maps etc instead of writing down the number, close browser, open skype then dialing direct???
I just wasted my money on a Skype phone number. Here’s another request for push.
PUSH… I too am pushing for push… All of the other new features were in comparison not at all necessary. Push is the number one priority for everyone it seems.
You REALLY REALLY need push notificications- and it would be nice if the SMS was unlimited, i would pay for it, if it was, also I believe the text messages should be sent from the skype number.
What they said. Push +1
Well it is blatently obvious that push is the biggest omission, the lack of landscape mode for SMS and skype chat is insane. What are you paying your dev team for if they weren’t able to include these two features right when 3.0 came out. I could see there perhaps being difficulties with push but the lack of landscape mode is mind boggilingly stupid. Thanks for all the wasted skype credits boyos.
Landscape keyboard should be also a “Must”. It’s quite slow write using the current keyboard… either for sms or for chat. Thanks!
The two main things that I would like to see included in the next skype update are push notification for chat and the ability to make VOIP calls over 3g.
Thanks
PUSH, pretty please!!!
Landscape mode please!
I agree that push should a HUGE priority. I’m really excited to use skype more (and pay for upgrade features), but without Push capabilities for my iphone, I won’t ever know when to check for calls or IMs. No good… There must be lots of smarties on the skype development team. I know you guys can figure it out…I believe in you