If there's anyone in Europe who wants to call my cell phone and wake me wherever I am to tell me when the new firmware is posted, let me know. I've been reloading the repositories like crazy. The Tableteer catalog shows some Skype UI .deb packages in the Bora tree, but of course these don't install all of Skype.In any event - I was involved in a conversation about Skype on InterentTabletTalk forums about WHY Skype is so important to the N800. Since Gizmo Project and Google Talk are already there for VOIP, why is Skype needed?
I am replicating some of response below:
It's not because it offers so much - it's because it offers something TO so MANY. There are tons of Skype users out there. More than you expect. If you don't use it yourself, you can find a few friends who do and will be glad you have it on your tablet.
Consider the iPhone's YouTube module. They SHOULD have put a real Flash implementation on their web browser, but since they were probably too stingy to cough up the license deal with Macromedia over Flash, they went right to YouTube for a partnership. Apple's implentation doesn't give the full experience, but it gives a big partnership to an in-demand service.
Skype does the same on the N800.
3 comments:
it is already there!
i guess you already, know, right?
I don't understand why you're excited about Skype. Gizmo has been around on 770 and N800 for some time now; it works great, and does calls to land lines and cell phones for cheap. And it uses an open protocol, unlike Skype. I've read too many posts hyping up this software which adds no new functionality. The title on one of your earlier posts, "Skype Update Non-News" really summed it up. Non-news indeed. I'm begging you, find something interesting to blog about.
Is skype available for nokia 770?
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