Skype comes to Apple iPhone

SHAPE Services has announced the availability of IM+ for Skype for iPhone, the Safari web application for accessing Skype ecosystem from the mobile environment. The application is designed especially for iPhone’s touch screen and complements the design and interface of Apple’s masterpiece. For a limited time IM+ for Skype iPhone version is being offered free of charge to all iPhone users.

Now iPhone owners can log onto http://skypeforiphone.com using iPhone’s Safari web browser and talk with their Skype contacts or call any landlines and mobiles in a cost-efficient way. “Noticing the public interest for Skype on iPhone, we decided to use our mobile IM and mobile Skype experience and develop an application for them; this has also been a move towards our IM+ for Skype platform coverage. It is truly easy and convenient to access and use. We are looking forward to hearing some feedback from iPhone users”, said Igor Berezovsky, the company’s CEO, in the press release. “No tweaks are necessary.”

IM+ for Skype is the fully mobile application that uses SkypeOut credits for voice communication ensuring cost-effective calls to any number around the globe. For users of Skype Unlimited and Skype Pro plans IM+ enables almost free calling from the mobile device to any PC with Skype or any landline/mobile number.

IM+ for Skype works in any network and doesn’t require WiFi.

53 Comments

  1. “Skype. You can TALK to people without using any of your cell phone MINUTES by using WIFI.”

    Except using this application, it tells Skype to call your iPhone and uses your voice minutes.

    This is not a real VOIP application for the phone, just a web interface to set up a SkypeOut voice call which connects both callers.

    You pay the cost of SkypeOut calling you at your phone, plus the cost of SkypeOut calling your destination caller, plus the cost of your voice minutes (long distance if overseas).

    LAME.

  2. @DL Meyer
    Do us all a favor and come back here when you’re past the “the world revolves around me” stage. Just like your pretentious link. Clue: NOBODY here cares about it!

    DL meyer- the voice of stupidity.

  3. “I am tired of online (safari) “software”. We need native software for offline use.”

    Hear Hear. A web page is not an “iPhone Application” to anyone by Steve Jobs. PC World’s list of top iPhone “Applications” in a previous post was about as pathetic as it gets.

  4. It’s interesting that so many responses here are to my first note (none for my second???) – perhaps more than for the subject at hand. Maybe three were sensible! The rest? “we hate you, DL”.

    FWIW, there were eleven downloads from my page were to folks who started here. (thank you all)
    As for the G.L.Whoreton comment … cheap, childish, unworthy of an adult. You just think you’re a “grown-up” … silly child.

    Dave

  5. I for one am glad the Skype is going on the iPhone. I have to talk to my clients in Hong Kong, Norway, and Germany almost every day. I have to plan my calls around my computer time so we can coordinate when people will be in the office (5 to 12 hour time differences). Skype on the iPhone will help so I can be mobil and not tied down. I love the idea.

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