Skype Explains Skype for iPhone Installation Crashes, Yahoo! Announces Yahoo For iPhone

On 01 Apr 2009

The Skype for iPhone app has made its way to the iTunes App Store just a expected, much to the enjoyment of numerous users out there. But their enjoyment was short-lived as the app would refuse to install. Skype has come out to announce that it is aware of the issue and that it may have pinpointed the source of the problem. In related iPhone news, the Yahoo! team has announced Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone – soon.

“Some of you have reported that Skype crashes during installation or launch. Our initial investigations suggest that this may happen on jailbroken phones, where the underlying iPhone software has been modified. Unfortunately we can’t be held responsible if Skype for iPhone misbehaves in these circumstances,” says Skype’s Peter Parkes.

Advertising

There is one other interesting development in the Skype for iPhone story: most people are using Apple’s stable iPhone OS 2.2.1, and for them connecting to Skype in order to make voice calls can only be done via WiFi; people who were daring enough to get iPhone OS 3.0 Beta (the first Beta, not Beta 2 which has been made available to developers – details here ) have discovered that they can connect via 3G. It is even possible to make voice calls over EDGE – a video presentation is available here.

Moving on, if you would much rather use Yahoo! Messenger on your iPhone, the development team behind the popular IM (instant messaging) client has announced it will make an iPhone dedicated app available to you in the near future.

“Our new Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone application will be available soon! We announced it tonight in conjunction with the CTIA Wireless conference. We’ll let you know when Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone is available to download,” explains Product Manager Sarah Bacon. A teaser preview of how Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone will work has been posted here.

Tags: Skype, Skype for iPhone, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone

About the author: George Norman

George is a news editor.
You can follow him on Google+, Facebook or Twitter

I Hope you LIKE this blog post! Thank you!

What do YOU have to say about this

blog comments powered by Disqus

Popular News

All News

Presenting the New Mozilla Webmaker Program

By George Norman on 28 May 2012

Mozilla introduced a new program meant to educate millions of people, the Mozilla Webmaker program.

CCleaner is Less Annoying, Defraggler is Faster

By George Norman on 26 May 2012

Piriform updated its products, making CCleaner less annoying and Defraggler a lot faster.

By George Norman on 20 Dec 2011

A lot of people will be traveling home or they will go on a nice vacation this Christmas – and that means that they’ll spend a lot of time in airports. The good news is that while they’re in the airport, they can get from free WiFi from Skype

40 Million People on Skype at the Same Time

By George Norman on 11 Apr 2012

On Tuesday, April 10, Skype Head of Social Media Jennifer Caukin announced that there are now 40 million users around the world signed into Skype at the same time.

Zero Day Vulnerability Plagues Recently Released Yahoo! Messenger 11.5

By George Norman on 05 Dec 2011

The good news, as we’ve reported a few days ago, is that Yahoo! released a new version of its instant messaging application, mainly Yahoo! Messenger 11.5. It comes with a handful of nice new features that we’ll go into later on.

Yahoo! Messenger 11.5 Lands with Great New Features

By George Norman on 30 Nov 2011

Great news for all the people out there who are on Yahoo!’s instant messaging application, the appropriately named Yahoo! Messenger. The news is that a new version of Yahoo! Messenger, mainly Yahoo! Messenger 11.5, has been released to the public

Advertising

Hot Software Updates