Summary: The update to Skype's app for
Android tablets brings a revamped UI and audio, but also reports from
users of dropped calls and crashes in the Microsoft-owned VoIP service.
"With so many now using tablets to make movie and speech phone calls with Skype, this newest edition is enhanced to range to your tablet's bigger display, so you can experience Skype on a bigger show wherever you go," Derek Snyder, head of cellular product marketing at Skype, said in a writing.
The upgrade has a two-column structure, with regularly used Skype choices (such as relationships, contacting and messages) on the remaining and an effective call/video flow on the right.
However, a number of customers have revealed in opinions area of the app's record on Google Play that the upgrade doesn't let them use the app in symbol method for small Tablets like the Nexus 7.
"Why no symbol Google Nexus 7? What a problems upgrade. How can I downgrade? Please help," a customer known as 'Jeffrey' had written.
Others revealed a slow-down in performance, or unusual behavior such as ugly movie sources, decreased phone calls and accidents.
"The movie discuss is difficult to use for interaction, information sent returning and forth is so slowly that it is not very potential you can get a glance of the person you are trying to discuss to," had written a customer known as 'Can'.
"Also, whenever I indication in, keep Skype start and then go returning to see which relationships are on, the app just simply accidents. In order to see them, I need to indication in again. This is not good," Can mentioned.
Skype for Android operating system 3.0 presents assistance for its own wide-band sound codec, known as Soft silk.
"Silk was developed to catch the wealth of individual conversation. It deals well with the often different rates of speed of online relationships, guaranteeing that the sound quality is always the best it can be," Snyder said. "That way, Skype will provide the best possible sound on your product, even with a unreliable relationship."
Microsoft — proprietor of Skype since May 2011 — previously in Nov it will start consolidating the Skype service with Microsoft windows Live Courier. As part of this move, the new Skype app allows customers to log in using their Ms qualifications.
The upgrade has a two-column structure, with regularly used Skype choices (such as relationships, contacting and messages) on the remaining and an effective call/video flow on the right.
However, a number of customers have revealed in opinions area of the app's record on Google Play that the upgrade doesn't let them use the app in symbol method for small Tablets like the Nexus 7.
"Why no symbol Google Nexus 7? What a problems upgrade. How can I downgrade? Please help," a customer known as 'Jeffrey' had written.
Others revealed a slow-down in performance, or unusual behavior such as ugly movie sources, decreased phone calls and accidents.
"The movie discuss is difficult to use for interaction, information sent returning and forth is so slowly that it is not very potential you can get a glance of the person you are trying to discuss to," had written a customer known as 'Can'.
"Also, whenever I indication in, keep Skype start and then go returning to see which relationships are on, the app just simply accidents. In order to see them, I need to indication in again. This is not good," Can mentioned.
Skype for Android operating system 3.0 presents assistance for its own wide-band sound codec, known as Soft silk.
"Silk was developed to catch the wealth of individual conversation. It deals well with the often different rates of speed of online relationships, guaranteeing that the sound quality is always the best it can be," Snyder said. "That way, Skype will provide the best possible sound on your product, even with a unreliable relationship."
Microsoft — proprietor of Skype since May 2011 — previously in Nov it will start consolidating the Skype service with Microsoft windows Live Courier. As part of this move, the new Skype app allows customers to log in using their Ms qualifications.
