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After Skype for PSP, Nokia N810 and Sony Mylo, a version of the famous software has been recently released just for Java-enabled cellphones. This beta version is compatible with all the major cellphone brands. So far, around 50 cellphones are supported (for a complete list visit Skype website here). Skype for your mobile lets you use all those features included in the original Skype such as: Skype contacts, instant messenger, group chat, phone calls. The use of this mini Skype version is limited to the following counties: Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the U.K. Its download is for free but not its use. As a matter of fact you still need to pay the normal national or local rate plus an extra fee for Skype-out depending where you are calling to. This makes the use of Skype mobile more convenient for International phone calls. There are anyway certain kinds of limitations as far as international calls are concerned. Reading from Skype’s website: “ We strongly recommend that you use Skype for your mobile beta in your home country only as your mobile operator may charge you very high calling and data fees and roaming charges when using it abroad.” As far as data transfer is concerned: “ There’s a data charge from your operator. A person with 20 contacts, who’s online for 1 hour, IMs for 10 minutes and has a 20 minute call each day will use about 1MB of data per month. The more data you use, the higher your charges may be.” All these limitations and extra fees could make its use far less popular than is computer counterpart. To download it, visit this page.

This small, really small free software does something really big: it records all your Skype conversations. In fact, Callgraph lets you save your most important conversation in an mp3 file, automatically. It also lets you record Skype to Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut calls without any limits tagging your conversation to retrieve them easily. To start using it visit this website.

If you have one of those nice PSP you may wonder if, apart from using Skype to call your friends and their phones, you can use a special software to chat and, why not, see people you care for. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) and British Telecommunications (BT) have just introduced Go!Messenger which is a nice webcam (and the proper software of course) that once plugged into your PSP lets you chat, speak and see your friends, family members and whoever you want, wherever you are. Let’s read the press release: “With Go!Messenger, the PSP is pushing new boundaries, adding unique communication features to all the existing multimedia experiences,” said Stephane Hareau, PSP European Marketing Manager. “Enabling more than 8.5 Million PSP users across the SCEE region to communicate with each other, through Video or Voice chat, truly confirms the always evolving nature and potential of PSP.” Ps:

As you know I am always looking for new devices that can integrate as much technology as possible. I hate having different devices doing differently things. A phone to call, a camera to take shots, a Mp3 reader to listen to my music. Why can not I have a single device doing all this? Luckily for me (and for you guys) big companies are becoming more and more aware about this and try to create new devices having many services and functions. One of this company called iRiver has recently made public its new tool called UNIT 2 which integrate many applications namely: CD/DVD player, FM tuner, TV tuner, VoIP phone, VoIP Video Phone, WiFi support and a fast browser to surf the web! Its specs are: base Unit and portable Unit, 2GB NAND Flash and 30GB hard drive, with SD memory card slot, 7-inch (800×480 pixels) 16:9 screen. No word about its price or release date. Watch the video to know how it works!

I remember when news used to be reliable, very reliable and you could trust them. Nowadays it is not like that anymore. In fact a few days after I wrote a post on PSP and the fact that the guys at Sony had delayed the availability of Skype due to microphone/speaker which failed to meet Skype certification standards, what do we have here? A brand new PSP 3.90 firmware update that includes Spype (just for PSP-2000 series.). This news is very glad, but Sony should stop playing with us. We are not videogames, are we?

Well, this is a rumor but it is worth being told. It looks like Sony is thinking to bring Skype to its famous PSP. If this is gonna be true, PSP will defeat all its rivals like Nintendo Ds, for sure. It ’s clear that the direction all these little devices are taking is (or should be) to have different applications doing different things: mp3 player, image viewer, camera, document reader, phone call etc are just some example of what an ideal device should be supposed to do. Coming back to PSP there are not details so far about the above rumor, but I bet we will know more from the upcoming CES. Stay tuned for more news!

Update: Sony has just released a press report saying that an indefinite delay will hit the project due to the PSP microphone/speaker which failed to meet Skype certification standards.

Update: The update that includes Skype has just been released. I apologize for what I wrote in the update above but it is not my fault. It looks like the guys at Sony like to make fun of all of us. Anyway, they are forgiven since Skype is really appreciated!

Source: scei.co.jp