It’s been the small over a month given Verizon announced it would unleash the VoIP hounds on name smartphones, an interesting pierce give AT&T’s wrangling with a FCC over Google Voice as well as begrudging capitulation of Skype over 3G. Early this sunrise a Skype Mobile app hit a Android Marketplace for Verizon devices As well as usually Verizon devices), as well as while it does work upon 3G, it curiously doesn’t work on WiFi — during all. Click upon by for some screenshots and the impressions.
Skype Mobile for Android

So, approbation intruth, this app usually works around 3G. In fact you can’t even launch a app with WiFi enabled; you have to spin it off. That’s a small bit peculiar as well as, for those who were hoping Skype as well as WiFi would help fill some coverage gaps, frustrating, but there’s the somewhat inaccordwith reason: domestic Skype calls are simply made over Verizon’s voice network. In other w ords, we can’t make Skype calls to anyone insideof a country — unless they aswell are the Skype user, of march.

Making the call to any alternative Skype user is rubbed purely by data, though the call through Skype to the made at home number will suck do wn your mins just similarto any alternative call. It’s usually when dialing internationally that we can strike a real phone number by VoIP, as well as here a app will automatically burst in and offer to save you alittle money. Which is, of course, presumption you have alittle credit in your Skype comment. If we don’t there’s no approach to purchase it through a app. It simply redirects you to www.skype.com, that is not quite accessible to mobile browsers. (In actuality, when we opened it up in a recently released Opera Mini it installed in Norwegian. Seriously.)

So, giveaway calls to other Skype users; calls to made at home numbers still use your minutes; general calls at heavily ignored rates; you can’t even IM when WiFi is upon. THE perfect release? Hardly, but if you’re a Skype user with alternative, likewise inclined friends and associates, or if you outlay the flattering penny upon general calls, this should have life a bit simpler for we — presumption you have a plain 3G connection.

[Thanks, Andrew]