Skype for iPhone

We have just released a hotfix for Skype for iPhone.

With this hotfix we have addressed three issues about what you have been telling to us lately.

We would suggest for everyone to upgrade in iTunes.

The update, to version 1.2.1 resolves following issues:
* Crashing in Dialing and History.
* Erroneous handling of international prefixes.
* Crashing due to special characters in contact names.

See also full release notes and known issues.

We would like to thank everyone who have reported their feedback to us and welcome other to do so in future also.
You can discuss matters with us on Skype forums and report issues on our public issue tracker.

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.

We have just released an update to Skype for iPhone.

Grab it now.

The new version has includes fixes for three problems which many of you have reported to us:

* Fixed crashing when clicking on certain contacts in the contact list
* Fixed crashing when returning to the contact list after having accepted a contact authorization request in specific cases
* Improved the handling of international calling prefixes in SkypeOut calling

Thank you to everyone who took the effort to contact us about your experience in running Skype for iPhone. If you have not done so yet then feel free to comment on this blog post, discuss things on our forums or if you run into problems or have feature requests in mind then submit reports on our public issue tracker.

Introducing to you, just out from our build server: Skype for iPhone.

You have been asking for it for a long time on our forums and now it's here.

Start downloading it straight from App Store.

We are interested in all your feedback about this new product to make future versions better. Post comments on this blog post, discuss things on our forums and file issue reports on our issue tracker, read the issue reporting guide.