Skype’s iPhone app has been modernized to include video-calling, the company has announced. The move means a mainstream company is now offering video-calling over mobile phone networks, while Apple’s own FaceTime video-calling service currently works only on iPhones and iPod Touches using WiFi.
Although many Apple fans have ‘jail broken’ their iPhones to allow 3G video calling already, the new Skype App will be available through Apple’s own App Store and will allow the service on standard devices. Video-calling has been popularized by Face Time, although opinion remains divided on its long-term popularity. It is now also built in to Microsoft's Xbox Kinect gaming console.
Skype’s app and the video calls will be free, subject to data charges dependent on users’ mobile phone tariffs. Both will work on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS as well as iPad and iPod Touch.
A Skype spokesman said “with approximately 25 million concurrent users logged into Skype at any given time, the new Skype for iPhone makes it easier than ever to share moments wherever you are.”
Skype for iPhone is one of the top five free iPhone apps in 2010 according to Apple.
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