Skype Takes Back its Windows Mobile App

Skype Takes Back its Windows Mobile App

IT company Skype decided to take back its Windows Mobile app because of the fact that it thinks the software doesn't offer “a great Skype experience”. Another app the VoIP company withdraws is Skype Lite, but the good news is that existing users would still have the possibility to use both of them.  Skype has apps for most of the other major smartphone OSes, such as Symbian, BlackBerry and the iPhone.

The IT company announced this move in a blog post on the Internet and said that “Skype Lite only works in a small number of countries. Where it does work, making a call requires you to use up your allocation of minutes from your mobile network, making the Skype-to-Skype calls sort-of-free-per-minute rather than actually-free-per-minute." Skype didn't say what its future plans are with Windows Phone 7 Series or whether it would make a new app or not for the OS. "With the latest version of the Windows Mobile OS, it’s been increasingly challenging for us to maintain an app which behaves as you’d expect."