iSkoot, which allows you to make and receive Skype calls and instant messages on your phone is now available as a native application for all UIQ 3 phones (P1i, P990, M600 and W950). iSkoot works by using a normal phone call to reach a special iSkoot number before passing the call on to Skype over the Internet.
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So you will still be paying for local calls, to talk to your Skype contacts. With Fring I can use Skype all the way: from mobile phone to whatever my destination is.
And I can use my WiFi connection for the Fring call so I don't pay any charges whatsoever.
I can see that iSkoot makes sense perhaps for the M600i, which doesn't have WiFi, for ppl who don't have a generous data-plan. Perhaps when you have no WiFi network available. But I still see only limited use of their scheme.
--Tim
These call back, through the PC, whatever hacks are p.o.s. Until the native Symbian Skype client (maybe in the next century?), the Fring-like proxy server solutions will do the job. And I used Fring even on 3G with good result.
Bear in mind that this will work where there's only a standard GSM connection unlike that data based alternatives that really require a minimum of EDGE. Note iSkoot is not calling back via a PC, all the work is done on iSkoot's servers.
one of the reasons I bought p1i was WiFi and possibility to get connected to Skype and MSN. Just now I realize that I have to pay for something that you do not have to pay if you have notebook. I must admit I do not feel thrilled but bitter and cheated.
Albert HANI