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#91
I've checked Skype on my N9 recently and it seems it is now dead. It is working somehow but it is not as usable as it should be. Here it is how it works and how it's not:
- login to an account works perfectly, online status is keeped afterwards
- chatting or calling to older Skype clients (for instance 4.x on Linux) works OK
- chatting or calling to newer Skype clients (i.e. Android, iOS clients) doesn't work, persons whom you try to call/chat to seems to be offline and nothing reaches them
- battery drain is significant
All in all I've finally switched this account off as I don't have any old apps users in my Skype's book. The only way for sensible chat now is via Google's Hangouts using Jabber. It is not perfect (can't see chat history, no voice calls) but it is OK for simple text communication. This is sad as Skype implementation and level on integration with system on Maemo/Meego was really the greatest, no other mobile OSes have reached that, even native Windows Mobile version won't leave your audio calls in phone's calls log... RIP Skype.

Last edited by sylwiusz; 2017-10-12 at 12:19.
 

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