Skype on a Nokia N95

[308mate]

How do I go about this?

Im connected via wi-fi on the phone, on the Skype site, but Im unsure weather to go for Skype for windows mobile or not. I dont think my phone has windows mobile. Should I get that too?

Any tips appreciated.

[wizbit]

AFAIK, you can't get Skype on your Nokia.
Your Nokia runs symbian, not windows - so slightly different. (well, very different.)

I tried it on my old N95 and never found a way to use Skype over my WiFi or any hotspots.
Unless of course, I purchased some credits - which defies the point of skype (imo.)

Take the iPhone for example - Skype raved how they had secured an application for it - yet payments remain required (for UK users.) I believe it was taken away in the states due to AT&T getting quite angry (and rightly so,) about their customers making phone calls, on their phones, without paying them.

HTH ?

[camgear]

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[Mr E]

wizbit said:

AFAIK, you can't get Skype on your Nokia.
Your Nokia runs symbian, not windows - so slightly different. (well, very different.)

Skype is available on the N95 last time I looked. As the N95 has a built in SIP stack for VOIP, I just used that instead and didn't bother with skypes propitiatory way of doing it.

wizbit said:

I tried it on my old N95 and never found a way to use Skype over my WiFi or any hotspots.
Unless of course, I purchased some credits - which defies the point of skype (imo.)

I think you may have missed the point of skype. What did you think it was going to do for you?

[308mate]

Mr E said:

wizbit said:

AFAIK, you can't get Skype on your Nokia.
Your Nokia runs symbian, not windows - so slightly different. (well, very different.)

Skype is available on the N95 last time I looked. As the N95 has a built in SIP stack for VOIP, I just used that instead and didn't bother with skypes propitiatory way of doing it.

wizbit said:

I tried it on my old N95 and never found a way to use Skype over my WiFi or any hotspots.
Unless of course, I purchased some credits - which defies the point of skype (imo.)

I think you may have missed the point of skype. What did you think it was going to do for you?

Im inclined to agree. For me the best thing about Skype has been free video calls via the internet to other skype contacts.

My thinking is, my phone will connect to the net, it will also do vid calls, therefore I put the app on my phone, I connect up and get free skype to skype on my phone. Non?

What you said above that though, is there any chance of a duffer like me pulling that SIP stunt? Im no techno wiz.

[Mr E]

Skype to skype should be 'free'. Skype to non-skype (breakout to PSTN) will cost.

Not sure if the skype app can use the video camera on the phone for video calls - I have an iPhone these days and a facing camera is one of the many things that it misses.

The sip stuff is pretty trivial to set up, but you'll need a SIP server somewhere to connect to, and that will cost money for the PSTN breakout so we're back where we started...

[kevin63]

Why not try "Fring" I used this on my N81 and it does more than just Skype it is free.

[VictorMeldrew]

Yes, I have Fring on my N95 8GB and it works fine.

[sinizter]

I use Fring to make calls through Skype. Works most of the time - sometimes even through the 3G connection.

[308mate]

kevin63 said:

Why not try "Fring" I used this on my N81 and it does more than just Skype it is free.

Thanks for all the replys chaps.

Ive now added Fring and will try that once I retrieve my Skype login details.

Can fring video call? The video call is important as I have a lot of family overseas.

[camgear]

something wrong with my link?

[sadako]

308mate said:

kevin63 said:

Why not try "Fring" I used this on my N81 and it does more than just Skype it is free.

Thanks for all the replys chaps.

Ive now added Fring and will try that once I retrieve my Skype login details.

Can fring video call? The video call is important as I have a lot of family overseas.

No you cannot video call using voip on a mobile phone. You need to use a computer and a webcam for that.

[308mate]

308mate said:

kevin63 said:

Why not try "Fring" I used this on my N81 and it does more than just Skype it is free.

Thanks for all the replys chaps.

Ive now added Fring and will try that once I retrieve my Skype login details.

Can fring video call? The video call is important as I have a lot of family overseas.

Update:

About 3 days after this post, my phone royally st itself. It started to cough a bit pretty much straight away (I thought nothing of it as it has "hiccupped" before and then ben fine). Then I had reason to take the battery out and when I turned it back on, drama. When I start it up now, the screen flickers with a myriad of stuff but underneath it all is a big Fring logo and the phone is completely unuseable. So Im deeply suspicious that the Fring shagged it.

[kevin63]

I must have had Fring for over a year and never had a problem, that was on a N81 though.
How about connecting up to the computer and do an update or restore from a backup, I take it you have made a backup.