{"id":383036,"date":"2010-03-03T04:50:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27314"},"modified":"2010-03-03T04:50:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:50:06","slug":"skype-for-symbian-lands-on-ovi-store-more-than-200-million-possible-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/383036","title":{"rendered":"Skype for Symbian lands on Ovi Store = more than 200 million possible users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty huge news in our book: Skype<\/a> has published a free mobile application for Symbian<\/a> in the Ovi Store<\/a>, basically enabling over 200 million Nokia handset users to easily download the program and start making free Skype-to-Skype calls from their phones.<\/p>\n

If I were a carrier, I’d probably be feeling rather nervous right now – and \/ or infuriated.<\/p>\n

Skype for Symbian, which you can also download the app<\/a> straight from the Skype website, will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian^1, the latest version of the Symbian<\/a> platform (see list below). <\/p>\n

It’s not the Skype wasn’t already available<\/a> for Symbian<\/a>, but its appearance in the Ovi Store will certainly increase awareness of its existence – as well as that of the Ovi Store, for that matter.<\/p>\n

We recently reported that Nokia’s Ovi Store now serves more than 1 million downloads per day<\/a> as of January 2010 (yesterday they said that number increased to 1.5 million per day or 22 downloads per second<\/a>), and if the success of the Skype app for the iPhone<\/a> is any indication, the addition of Skype will lift those numbers up significantly.<\/p>\n

The app does everything you’d want a Skype app to do, as it includes support for making free calls to other Skype users over Wi-Fi and 3G, instant messaging, picture and video sharing – the whole nine yards.<\/p>\n

This is the long list of phones that can now accommodate the installation of the Skype Mobile app: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia 5530 and the following non-touch devices: Nokia E72, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E51, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8Gb, Nokia N85, Nokia N82, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8 Gb, Nokia N79, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 6210 Navigator and Nokia 5320.<\/p>\n

Skype says it will even be updating the app soon to make it function on Symbian mobiles from other handset makers, including Sony Ericsson.<\/p>\n

Bad news for carriers, good news for most everyone else.<\/p>\n

(Press release<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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