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Skype to release limited pre-release version of Skype for Symbian, a version of its voice-over IP software for smart phones running the Symbian OS.

Which is to point out, Nokia telephones? The software enables free Skype-to-Skype calls, cheap calls between Skype and a landline, instant messaging, group chats, the receiving and sending of files, and the facility to receive calls on a web number. Skype for Symbian works over Wi-Fi and 3G information connections though if you use the second, Skype hopes you've got an unlimited info plan. The pre-release version supports more than ten devices, and the production release will include even more, Skype recounted on its Web site.

The list includes: Symbian S60 third Edition Feature Pack one and Pack two devices, as well as the Nokia E71, E63, E66, N82, E51, multiple models of the N95 and N81, the E90, N96, N85, Navigator and Classic, the N78 and the N79. The software can be installed over the air, through the Nokia Computer Suite, or can be dispatched to the telephone over a Bluetooth connection. Users just have to have 6MB of free space. Should you hit any snafus, Skype would love to learn about it. Did you like it? Did we miss anything? Did you have difficulty using it? Did you have any technical issues? Let us know about it on our forums, according to Skype. Do not forget that it's a beta release, which suggests that the quality isn't up to our common high standards.

Nokia recently revealed that it is going to be remodeling the Symbian control panel. I see superb opportunity for Nokia to capture new expansion in our industry, by making what we are expecting to be the planet's largest platform for services on the mobile, Nokia Boss Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo asserted at the firm's yearly Capital Markets Day on two Dec.

Not everybody is certain that a Symbian update can save the failing telephone maker, which during quarter 3 of 2009 reported money losses of roughly $838 million. The base weakness for Nokia is Symbian, its handset OS, which is superseded and more difficult for developers to work with and for customers to use, Ken Hyers, a researcher with Technology Business Research, lately told eWEEK. Hyers went on to assert that Google's open-source mobile OS, Android, could be the better route for Nokia. According to Skype, its users spent 3.1 bln mins on Skype-to-landline calls, during quarter three of 2009, and 27.7 bln mins on Skype-to-Skype calls, a 3rd of which were video calls.