I'm extremely exited to write to you about Skype 1.2 for iPhone.

This version of Skype for iPhone brings to you many benefits in comparison with previous version, first and most notable improvement is Skype to Skype audio calls quality.
In addition we have added support for contact groups, made SMS sending lot easier, were helping you to conserve battery life with adding an option to allow Skype to go offline when device is locked.

We have added an possibility to start Skype calls straight from web pages which include there a Skype links.

That's not all, we have worked a lot on under the hood to increase the clients performance, stability and to iron out some bugs which slipped in to the previous version.

Start downloading it straight from the iTunes store.

Please let us know if you see anything happening what you would not expect to have happened. You can discuss things with us on our forums or file issues in our public issue tracker.

The full release notes and known issues for the newly released build 1.2.0 are here.