Comments on: iPhone Skype App Going 3G: “Real Soon”

By: KTrimbach

KTrimbach — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:35:26 +0000

Count me in with Milk. I get tired of all the AT&T bashing. Even if Verizon is better (I’m not saying they are) that leaves 3 or 4 other networks that AT&T beats hands down – and I can verify that with my own experience.

Although I’ve also experienced most of the complaints about AT&T – they are minor compared to other networks. My main complaint with AT&T is their refusal to accept iPhones as cell modems for my laptop (Yea, I know – It’s coming! RSN)

By: Eddie2016

Eddie2016 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:04:05 +0000

Any Good news for users here in uk? We are trapped with skype being limited to 3 mobile only and rest with contractual difficulties

By: L

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:50:10 +0000

Only works out if you have a reasonably data plan and if you are making long distance calls I suppose… otherwise you get charged for using data over 3G anyways.

http://www.diverse-group.com/menu/blog.html

By: Me

Me — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:25:56 +0000

I love At&t and my iPhone! I don’t have any problems at all. When I had verizon I dropped ALL THE TIME! I also am sick of all the complaining.

By: macboy

macboy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:06:52 +0000

@hungwell and sadie Horrible excuses. All carriers have equal alternatives to the iphone. What good is the iphone if you have terrible service where you live. And dropped calls and have 4 bars and your call barely goes through and you have to repeat things over and over again and are people that endure mediocre AT&T service. Or it’s just garbage and you have never had as many dropped calls or terrible service since leaving verizon!!! lol I never heard of a call “barely” going though either it does or doesn’t. No matter what carrier your with. All these negatives and you went with the carrier for the phone???? Sounds pretty stupid No!!!

By: iplan2study

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:25:01 +0000

@hung

Other people complain about the same thing buddy, AT&T is just garbage I have never had as many dropped calls or terrible service since leaving verizon and joining AT&T and I travel all over ca and it's just not as good. The only good thing they have is the iPhone

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:24:38 +0000

This is awesome. I use skype a lot to make international calls when in a wifi spot. I’ve been waiting to do this on the 3G network for a long time…

By: Sadie

Sadie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:13:44 +0000

@Macboy: plenty of people endure mediocre AT&T service simply in order to own an iPhone. I’m one of them. If I had a choice of carriers for my iPhone, I guarantee you that AT&T would be near the bottom of the list.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:51:40 +0000

I bet "real soon" means when 3.2 is released

on Push, nothing has said they're NOT working on notifications all the same.

this change plus notifications will make cheap international calls a reality finally.

By: HungWell

HungWell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:35:56 +0000

@macboy- There are a lot of us who stay with AT&T only for the iPhone. Some people have awesome service with AT&T. But if even 2% of their customers have poor service, they should be clearing that up before taking on more of a bandwidth load.

By: macboy

macboy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:33:26 +0000

@jeff It’s terrible? For you. In your area. Just because people have bad service where they live doesn’t mean everyone does. Do think verizon is awesome everywhere? lol guess again. If they were that great my gf wouldn’t have dropped calls twice a day and slow data with her bb.

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:19:12 +0000

@TARRANT

The entire Skype development team must be daft. Why are they working on ANYTHING save push notifications? How can they not see how essential this is to their service?

Exactly.

If they don't add notifications its a pointless waste of time. You would think he would at least have mentioned this in the blog.

Its utterly useless without notifications. Fring, IM+ do skype better than skype does skype.

I can only hope that after their big patent dust-up they can get back to business.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:11:24 +0000

@milk. Sorry to dissapoint you but AT&T is terrible, when my phone says I have 4 bars yet my call barely goes through and I have to repeat thongs over and over that is a problem. And I am not alone…..and your ford, Dont even get me started on those piles of crap. Hope you have an extended warranty.

By: macboy

macboy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:10:30 +0000

Why do people cry about at&t if you dont like them dont use them. In my area there the best. They cant be that bad having over 90 million costumers. Are you trying to say there is 90 million unhappy people? please

By: iDutch

iDutch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:09:08 +0000

Skype, should’ve had a 3g enabled app sitting and waiting…

By: Websyndicate

Websyndicate — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:54:53 +0000

Finally. More excited about the optimization they are working on

By: Luc Richard

Luc Richard — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:37:29 +0000

We could already do this or awhile with skype in fring, which is better anyway. Just sayin you don’t actually have to wait. This is pretty cool for me because I can actually call long distance without getting huge charges since I don’t have LD minutes.

By: Milk

Milk — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:22:39 +0000

Good Analogy.

By: HungWell

HungWell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:21:06 +0000

@Milk- Nope. I don’t necessarily take the US Govt word at face value. But I do believe that you have do have your house in order before you put on an addition.

By: Milk

Milk — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:52:35 +0000

@Hungwell

You believe the US government? -_-

the reason why I used the ford analogy is because i still have friends i'm closed to who will just SNAP if any word of Ford is mention and block it out "Nope Ford sucks they make bad cars"

I see the same Stigma floating around with ATT and it's network.

which simply isn't true.

Btw, i'm not a fanboy, i'm currently using a Nexus One right now on T-Mobile.

You want to talk about a bad network? there's a good start.

By: Glenn_Va

Glenn_Va — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:49:08 +0000

Skype: “You may have seen other apps offering calls over 3G, but we’re holding ours back for a little bit longer.” Lets see..I bet it comes out when info on OS 4.0 and new iPhone is released by Apple–maybe late Mar or even this summer. I’m more excited about the posibility of jail breaking my iphone so I can get some neat features on my phone. The Skype thing just dragged on too long.

By: tarrant

tarrant — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:48:46 +0000

The entire Skype development team must be daft. Why are they working on ANYTHING save push notifications? How can they not see how essential this is to their service? You wouldn’t buy a telephone that doesn’t ring/vibrate. Neither would you buy a microwave or oven that doesn’t alarm. What makes them think their software in it’s current form is even acceptable? Seeing as they are apparently clueless, talentless hacks, I’d suggest just using Fring or IM+

By: baaaaa

baaaaa — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:47:33 +0000

Yes! Don’t be a sheep! Milk never had problems, and he even heard of a press release where they said they were improving things! Therefore, things are great, and only getting better! THATS critical thinking for you! The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades!

By: HungWell

HungWell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:44:23 +0000

BTW- Glad to hear you like your Mustang. I’ve been saving for a second car and that’s on my short list.

By: Art Vendaley

Art Vendaley — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:41:46 +0000

FORD RULES !!!

US Goverment has more important things to worry about than bandwidth,,,

By: HungWell

HungWell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:33:35 +0000

@Milk and Art Vendaley: I guess the US Government is just a bunch of Verizon fan boys too: http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2010/02/04/government-fears-ipad-cripple-networks/

And I didn’t say anything bad about Ford. They make a decent product and were the only US car maker to not take bailout money. Kudos to them.

But facts are facts. While plenty of people are happy with AT&T, there are still many (myself included) living in problem areas. It would be nice if they reinvested money there first before expanding the demand on their network.

By: Art Vendaley

Art Vendaley — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:26:45 +0000

What Milk said! Stop being such downers,,,, any updates and FREE extras are always welcome in my book.. so STFU yall and just be gratefull youre not a verizon customer

By: Milk

Milk — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:24:39 +0000

Can you people STFU about this ATT has a bad network stigma??

you know what? everyone STILL thinks FORD makes bad cars, but my current 2009 GT Mustang is the best and most solid car i've ever owned in my life

ATT is working hard to improve things, let them improve and don't be a block headed Sheep customer and believe what everyone else says, try it out for yourself.

I've never had a problem with ATT's network when i had all 3 iPhones.

and i hear they are improving things? even better.

By: HungWell

HungWell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:13:03 +0000

iPad, Slingbox, Skype. I’m glad AT&T has such a wonderful self image that they think they can handle all of this strain on their already strained bandwidth. I’d suggest that someone give them a full length mirror so they can take a peek and see that their pen1$ isn’t really that big!

By: fastlane

fastlane — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:12:24 +0000

So, twelve people will be very happy soon.

By: Dionte

Dionte — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:59:24 +0000

I’d be more excited about them adding video chat.