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Skype Voice Messaging... the sweet and sour

June 2, 2005 11:58 AM

Topics: Skype News | design

The new Skype Windows beta release 1.3.0.29 has two new features I like.

1. Voice Messaging.

Sweet.
As a VM subscriber I can now send a Voice Message up to 10 minutes duration to anyone in Skypeland. That will make Stuart happy. He requested this feature a few weeks ago here.

Sour.
Along with the voice message the recipient gets this "i" for information icon message and an advertisment:

screen capture of Skype client home. information note says 'You can receive voicemails even though you have not subscribed to voicemail service. To send voicemails, get Skype Voicemail.' with a link to the Skype store. Also in the screen: an event count and SkypeOut balance.

So far this is tastefully done. Let's hope it stays that way.

2. The Start Menu is gone and with it some bloat. It is replaced with a Services and Events bars underneath my contacts list both of which can be minimized achieving an uncluttered look.

View the Change Log here. Lot's of positive new changes.

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Posted by: Uri L. at June 2, 2005 6:01 PM

Looks great - but is the new build still unstable/buggy as the first ver 1.3 was?

Sliding into something else - I wonder if and when Skype will decide to support skins for the client. I'd like to play with other skype UI flavours.

Posted by: Bill Campbell at June 2, 2005 6:37 PM

Hey Uri!

Welcome to Skype Journal!

The new build 1.3.0.29 is preforming quite a bit better. I had one crash and one "cannot connect" issue today. VM is better. I only had two issues of Error 2 (failure to connect correcly to the server), but I was able to remember what I said (unusual) and resend the VM. This issue will only affect users over 55. Grin

Posted by: Uri L. at June 3, 2005 12:55 PM

Thanks for the details, Bill :)

Actually now I'm a little hasitant about installing this ver. Will wait 'till Tuesday to see if there's a newer build. The r&d guys at Skype usually fix those errors quickly.

Btw - > following up on Phil's link to "Consumer Casting Conversation" - Franck has re-posted his idea in English -> http://www.blogperformance.com/archives/consumer_casting_conversations_in_english.html

Interesting vision.

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