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Skype 2 (beta) review

Wednesday 21 December 2005, 6:22 PM

UE errors and some bonus quality issues


There are number of UE changes that seems to make life harder than before e.g. Contacts listing and ringtones. Also still no way to amend an existing contact.

Plus the addition of a few bugs e.g. when pasting or typing in telephone numbers, when a call has 'failed', no access to voice mails, contacts have become unavailable when they are online, calls dropping (but this seems to have become more prevalent in recent months) and, most unforgiveable, my system ran much slower (proved when v1.4.0.84 was reinstalled).

4.5

This Member's Rating

Mediocre

Skype 2 (beta)



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Overview

Skype 2 (beta)

Editors rating
Rating: 7.5
Verdict

Although Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.

Typical price

Free

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