Just downloaded Skype for iPhone and iPod touch, and tried receiving a call on it with my iPod touch using my iPhone earphones. I had a conference call with 2 other friends. The quality was good, but the other callers said that quality from my end wasn't as good as compared to on my computer.
The things that aren't so great:
- you have to keep the app on all the time to receive calls and messages (the iPhone OS 3.0 version would probably have push notifications)
- you can't voice call on a 3G network with iPhone (though if you have 3.0 beta iPhone OS, rumor has it you can. I'm guessing that will be fixed soon because carriers won't be happy for sure.)
But overall, I gotta say it's pretty cool. I remember about a year ago I was shopping for a wifi Skype phone, and luckily, I didn't buy one =)
It's too bad the touch doesn't have a mic, then it would very much function like a wifi Skype phone. It seems that 3.0 will enable the touch to have Bluetooth support. Hopefully, we can use Bluetooth headsets to answer calls.
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