The iPod Touch launched September 2008 has a microphone, unlike the first iPod Touch launched in 2007. ![]() The service will also work on later versions of Apple’s latest iPod Touch device, which has Wi-Fi links but no cellular connection. As with Skype on the desktop, fees will be charged for calls to traditional phones. Skype’s iPhone application will be free to download and will allow free calls between Skype users. “Whether you’re Twitter, MySpace or Facebook you want to be embedded in the address book,” said Wood. One of Skype’s unusual iPhone features is the fact that it allows subscribers use to the phone numbers in their existing iPhone address book so they do not need duplicate lists. ĬCS Insight analyst Ben Wood said the new applications give Skype a chance to boost its mobile phone position, which has been weaker than that of social sites such as Facebook, Twitter or News Corp's MySpace NWSA.O. It has already announced Skype for Nokia NOK1V.HE phones and for phones based on Android, Google Inc's GOOG.O mobile system, and Windows Mobile, from Microsoft Corp MSFT.O. In May it will launch Skype for Research In Motion's RIM.TO BlackBerry devices, which popularized mobile email. ![]() ![]() There’s a pent-up demand,” Durchslag said in an interview before the CTIA annual mobile showcase in Las Vegas, where Skype plans to launch the service on Tuesday. 1 request we get from customers is to make Skype available on iPhone.
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