Skype developer’s relentless pursuit for quality and attention to detail made Skype the most dearly video conferencing tool among cybercitizen’s. Even though there are substitutions available for skype,none of them are as refined as skype is. Every time Skype Communications releases a new version the software becomes more robust and powerful.
To keep the user base (which ranges from corporate to home users) addicted Skype has made every attempts to provide a very rich feature set. Group video chat, Instant Messaging with history and lookup feature is core strengths of the software. Skype have some nifty features like editing a sent message, removing a sent message, etc. Their emoticons convey true emotions in a cute way.
Another useful characteristic of Skype is that your chat history is available even if you login into skype using a new computer. Skype will automatically transfer your chat history to the new computer you logged in. Even if you go offline in middle of a group conversation Skype will store those unread messages from other members of the group and loads it next time you log in. The powerful search tool comes with the Skype allows you to search inside a long chat history.
The build quality deserves five stars. I never saw the Skype crashing or causing serious performance degradation to overall system. Skype is committed in releasing updates which includes bug fixes and new features regularly. Skype's voice quality is good even though the voice and video won't go hand in hand in low speed networks.
Recently skype ,inc has expanded its portfolio to the handheld devices also. It released products for symbian, iOS and Android. Skype was not able to maintain the build quality in the handheld devices platform.
Skype's paid voice plans are also quite popular among users. Its popularity made companies like Belkin to create Skype handsets.
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