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So they're advertising now that it will transform mobile phone calls forever! :roll:
So does anyone actually use it?
I've had it a year but hardly know anyone to call with it :smt102
So I thought I'd start the ball rolling with my id
stu2911
i have skype on the computor but cant remember the id on it
i use it to phone my sisters in austrailia tho
Person i know at college uses it al the time on his mobile to call his friends and family in Nepal as its cheaper for him aparantly. He never seems to get off the f-in thing and he also uses it to do instant messages
madness
07-05-09, 06:52 AM
Had Skype on my 3 mobile for nearly 18 months. Set up a user account when I got it and haven't used it since.
timwilky
07-05-09, 07:04 AM
I use a proper VoIP service as do the rest of my extended family, my mother has an internet connection but no computer just to supply her VoIP so she can talk to my sister in Spain and brother in New Zealand for hours each day.
I have set her speed buttons on her phone to dial their IP addresses directly and bypass her service provider. apart from that she can then us the phone as a normal dial up/in
SoulKiss
07-05-09, 08:07 AM
I use a proper VoIP service as do the rest of my extended family, my mother has an internet connection but no computer just to supply her VoIP so she can talk to my sister in Spain and brother in New Zealand for hours each day.
I have set her speed buttons on her phone to dial their IP addresses directly and bypass her service provider. apart from that she can then us the phone as a normal dial up/in
Yep, Skype is as Mickey Mouse as it comes..........
tigersaw
07-05-09, 08:24 AM
I loaded it, but what with 1100 free minutes each month, there has never been an incentive to try it out
ivantate
07-05-09, 09:52 AM
I use it all the time, me being in Italy and the missus in the UK.
Also the 3 contracts apply out here so I have a UK contract but can use the free minutes, internet and skype over here.
There are about 6 or 7 countries you can use 3 in for no extra charge. We changed to 3 about 10 months ago onto a 6 month contract as a bit of a test but have now signed up for 18 months with an extra fiver for internet access and also cancelled the home landline and broadband.
Yup, we use it home to call the sister in law in Australia (to her landline), friends in Mauritius (sp?) use it and we chat away to some other friends on the Isle of Man.
Skype on Three has been available on some tariffs for ages but they have just now opened it up for all tariffs (ie the cheap **** ones).
BigBaddad
07-05-09, 10:38 AM
:shock:lets face it, the only people to benefit from Skype are women!:shock:
I keep trying cheap call systems but them i'm let down by the fact that i hardly ever talk on my phone. I don't know why I pay all this money every month for what is primarily an alarm clock :mad:
Yep, Skype is as Mickey Mouse as it comes..........
It's free, simple and easy to use. I have a Skype phone which is cordless and I can use it to take or make calls on the pc or the landline. It works just fine for me.
Everyone seems to have completely missed the intended point of this thread :(
It is being advertised for mobile to mobile calls in the UK not to call your sister-in-law's third cousin in Outer Mongolia :rolleyes:
I use it all the time.
So care to add your username to the list?
1. stu2911
2.
gettin2dizzy
07-05-09, 08:53 PM
Only problem is, that it uses a 'live' connection the whole time. So it can toast the battery.
It's a great idea, and with an INQ (designed for it) it'd be ace.
Only problem is, that it uses a 'live' connection the whole time. So it can toast the battery.
Any more so than being connected to the mobile network? :???:
For all the people that call me on it :roll: I suppose I could turn itoff and see, currently my battery can last a weekend between charges.
Still can't quite believe the hype Three is giving this, compared with the fact that from the wide cross section of the public on here, not one person is using it for mobile to mobile calls in the UK:smt102
gettin2dizzy
12-05-09, 11:32 PM
I've been trying to nag the gf to use skype for bloody ages :lol:
I have always used it.
When in uni I used to use it all the time to text people, Filipe and I have always used it with no problems. Now I use it all the time to talk to friends and family back in the uk.
No SK it´s not mikey mouse stuff.. as has been said its quick, simple and FREE!!!
gettin2dizzy
12-05-09, 11:38 PM
No SK it´s not mikey mouse stuff.. as has been said its quick, simple and FREE!!!
And some of us would rather spend 2 mins downloading a program than program the whole of the internet ;)
I have always used it.
When in uni I used to use it all the time to text people, Filipe and I have always used it with no problems. Now I use it all the time to talk to friends and family back in the uk.
No SK it´s not mikey mouse stuff.. as has been said its quick, simple and FREE!!!
Cool, which mobile phone operator in portugal offers it? My family in Spain can't find any cheap mobile phone providers.
Cool, which mobile phone operator in portugal offers it? My family in Spain can't find any cheap mobile phone providers.
I use it via the internet hun. It means that I can make web cam calls to family at the same time. As for cheap mobile phone providers in Spain well assuming that they have the same as here... optimus but I think they charge roaming charges in Spain..
Might be able to try 3G as there was a european directive asking them to unblock skype but dont know if it has been enforced yet.
Yep, Skype is as Mickey Mouse as it comes..........
SK, come on, engage brain. A simple solution to a simple problem. Yes the marketing is OTT, but Skype works. FACT.
My experience of it is that I used to use it constantly (from a computer, not a mobile Stu) when talking to clients for my then employer. Back then, I had the house setup with it so I could choose to use the land-line or Skype. That was due to the fact I was on call from home from time to time.
I used Skype because clients were using Skype & wanted to not alter the way they work in order to talk to me. When they're paying £x p.a, you don't argue.
SK & TimWilky, you'd probably be suprised, Skype has seriously upped it's game recently in terms of call quality, and without charging for it.
But just to keep the geeks happy, the default installation of Skype uses port 80, thereby preventing HTTPd using the same port in my development environment. That's just one reason why whenever I've implimented site-site VoIP, I haven't used Skype.
Stu, feel free to add me on Skype if you wish, but I doubt I'll use it much. Username is d_i_robertson.
Jamiebridges123
13-05-09, 01:29 AM
I used to use Skype a little bit to talk to some e-buddies and some girl who lived in London, but this was going back a while... Never really bothered with it since.
Colleagues at work use it to talk to relatives in Australia though, so I guess it's used by plenty of people for different things.
SoulKiss
13-05-09, 06:53 AM
SK, come on, engage brain. A simple solution to a simple problem. Yes the marketing is OTT, but Skype works. FACT.
My experience of it is that I used to use it constantly (from a computer, not a mobile Stu) when talking to clients for my then employer. Back then, I had the house setup with it so I could choose to use the land-line or Skype. That was due to the fact I was on call from home from time to time.
I used Skype because clients were using Skype & wanted to not alter the way they work in order to talk to me. When they're paying £x p.a, you don't argue.
SK & TimWilky, you'd probably be suprised, Skype has seriously upped it's game recently in terms of call quality, and without charging for it.
But just to keep the geeks happy, the default installation of Skype uses port 80, thereby preventing HTTPd using the same port in my development environment. That's just one reason why whenever I've implimented site-site VoIP, I haven't used Skype.
Stu, feel free to add me on Skype if you wish, but I doubt I'll use it much. Username is d_i_robertson.
My brain is completely engaged.
Skype is by the same people that brought us Kazaa, which turned out to to be chock full of spyware that they put there.
Just as I wouldn't get a paedophile to babysit my kids (if I had any), I wont let any of their products near my network, whether proven to be 100% clean of spyware or not just on basic principle.
My brain is completely engaged.
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I wont let any of their products near my network, whether proven to be 100% clean of spyware or not just on basic principle.
I used Skype because clients were using Skype & wanted to not alter the way they work in order to talk to me. When they're paying £x p.a, you don't argue.
So your engaged brain would risk turning away easy money? I suppose it makes sense, when you think about it. :confused:
SoulKiss
13-05-09, 08:19 AM
So your engaged brain would risk turning away easy money? I suppose it makes sense, when you think about it. :confused:
Ahh but at work its not MY network is it :)
As Tim said, there are plenty of SIP/Open Standard alternatives that I would steer people towards, but end of day, the network at work is not mine.
I would also point out the dangers of using a piece of software that is non-auditable that is very agile at finding its ways through firewalls........
Would you all like me to start a thread about Skype on computers? ;)
Because this isn't
:D
Would you all like me to start a thread about Skype on computers? ;)
Because this isn't
:D
Ah, but I responded to this thread because you asked for people that were on Skype. I am. You can use your mobile to call me (if you wish).
Only it won't work at the moment as Skype isn't running due to the above point about my developmental work & Skype interfering.
No worries ;)
I'm glad for the thread bumps, because if it was only people talking about Skype on mobiles there wouldn't be one reply :(
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