Skype for Symbian Beta (not “Lite”) Finally Available for Nokia S60-based Phones

Skype clients are available for a lot of platforms. But, one glaring hole in the app list is Nokia’s Sybmian S60 smartphones. A “lite” client has been available for a while now. But, I found it useless. The good news is that if you have Nokia phone running Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 or 2 (lots of E and N series phones), a limited beta is now underway (from Skype Garage)…

Skype for Symbian beta release

You Nokia phone needs 6MB free space and be one of the supported phones (listed in the blog item linked above). Once installed, Skype calls can be made over 3G or WiFi connections. There’s lots of discussion going on in the…

Skype Community Skype for Symbian forum area

…if you want to read what people already playing with Skype for Symbian are saying about it.

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