Skype for Pocket PC

JuncoPartner

Hey,

Is anyone using Skype on a mobile device?
I'm really really tempted by the new xda range from o2, the built in wifi is a dream come true for me...
I understand you can use Skype on these bad boys too, and that could well be the biggest selling point for me!
So if anyone is using Skype on a pocket pc whats the quality like?

flodis79

JuncoPartner wrote:

Hey,

Is anyone using Skype on a mobile device?
I'm really really tempted by the new xda range from o2, the built in wifi is a dream come true for me...
I understand you can use Skype on these bad boys too, and that could well be the biggest selling point for me!
So if anyone is using Skype on a pocket pc whats the quality like?

Have a look at www.modaco.com - lodsa PPC users there.. I have a smartphone, HTC Tornado, myself, and there's no official skype version for it, but you can tweak it to work even there. Otherwise there is www.woize.com and www.barablu.com for vowlan, voice of wireless lan.

cgarvey

JuncoPartner wrote:

So if anyone is using Skype on a pocket pc whats the quality like?

As good as the PC based one, for me anyway. I use headphones to stop the common echo effect (the people I call hears their own speech from my speakers, back through my microphone, up to a second later, unless I use headphones).

.cg

Spipov

actually, if u overclock your pocket pc, ull find that lag gone.

im using the qtek 9100 - a TI OMAP supposedly at 195 mhz. ive overclocked to 240 and use skype just like i would be using a normal phone.

however, make sure u are running skype for pocket pc low cpu version (312mhz) and if u buy one with a 400mhz, by all means, use the normal skype for pocket pc....

ive been impressed with skype on pocket pc i must admit.
i wish they had msn voice for pocket pc

any questions feel free to ask. ive tweaked around my qtek to get the best out of it so can help (qtek is like an unbranded xda pocket pc phone for people who dont know)

cgarvey

Spipov wrote:

actually, if u overclock your pocket pc, ull find that lag gone.

What lag?

I've used an old iPaq (dunno specs, but it's around 3 years old), and an Axim x50v with no lag. Is it just for slower CPUs?

.cg

Spipov

usually if there is a small lag and u use the normal pocket pc speaker, u will get the echo effect.

thats why i was saying to overclock.
the axim x50v is so fast anyway u wont get any problem there

its all a question of what u want to put up with

Lump

You know that the XDA is a phone too

John

cgarvey

Spipov wrote:

usually if there is a small lag and u use the normal pocket pc speaker, u will get the echo effect

Ah OK .. if I use the builtin speaker/mic on anything (PDA, PC, dual core lappie), I get that echo. Can't say I notice a lag though, but they're all decent machines, like you say.

.cg

dingding

Works fine with my HP5550