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If you use Skype a lot, here’s a piece of news that should be of interest for you: a lite version of Skype has just been launched, especially for Android and Java phones. The new mobile Skype can be used worldwide and it doesn’t require your phone to be connected via Wi-Fi. However, in order [...]

Filed under: Software , Android Check it, VoIP lovers -- Skype has just announced a "lite" version of its calling software that can be downloaded on Android-powered devices and over 100 other Java-enabled mobiles. We're told that the lite version delivers just the core Skype capabilities including Skype-to-Skype calling, sending / receiving instant messages, seeing when your Skype contacts are online and receiving calls to your online personal phone number on Skype. That's all we've got for details, but it's supposedly available worldwide for those who care. Skype lite comes to Android, loads of other Java-enabled mobiles originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

After becoming the single best weather application for Symbian-based smartphones, Paragon Software decided it’s about time to reach wider audience, hence they launched their Handy Weather app for Java-enabled feature phones. Here are some of the reasons/features why people buy Handy Weather, despite the fact they can get free weather forecast from a number of other [...]

Microsoft has put itself in the unenvious position of asking for assistance from a competitor to help sell online search services from Microsoft Live Search. As part of a new partnership, Sun will distribute the MSN Toolbar, powered by Microsoft Live Search, to U.S.-based Internet Explorer users. Users will be giving the option to download [...]

Back in August AT&T sent out a customer satisfaction survey to all iPhone owners. Well now it seems a new survey is being sent out to all of us on the AT&T network asking how the 2.1 firmware is working for us and what we want to see next on your iPhone 3G. [...]

Yesterday Google released a new version of its GMail app for J2ME-enabled and BlackBerry phones. The main goal was to make the application faster and more reliable, hence the code has been rearchitected to push all the processing to the background. In addition, the client-side caching scheme has been improved and “every bottleneck piece of [...]