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Skype may be smart: Nokia UK users battle

Friday 5th March 2010
Gaberlunzie keeps dreaming

Gaberlunzie's ears picked up at a Reuter piece on Skype (having tied up a deal with Verizon) now unveiling software from Nokia Oyj, which could run on more than 200m smartphones around the world.

Being cursed by just such a smart phone, whose camera is more limited than dumber Nokia's, and whose software has departed from the intuitive to the windowesque, Gaberlunzie was enthusiastic to try the Symbian software now available for free download from Nokia's Ovi.

As Nokia N95 is not support by any telco in the UK for quality issues, and only grudgingly serviced by Orange, Gaberlunzie took up his mobile and using his house internet link rather than the Orange one, went to Ovi to shop.

Here he was informed that he needed to download an update. The phone accordingly accepted the file (in fact it accepted it three times) but the N95 could still not get onto Ovi's offerings.

With too much curiosity than is good for him, he then thought to give readers a link by going on the Ovi site from his Mac. On site Ovi is very determined you sign in, without this you can't download or send it to a friend.



Having attempted to comply three times, the site rejected his sign in for no specific reason, simply omitting some detail. After three failed attempts Gaberlunzie simply went to the application on Ovi but without being registered, (he did try again on that page)  which Nokia for its own reasons are not allowing, he can't send it to his extremely dumb, miscalled smart mobile the Nokia N97.

Attempts to register a complaint (and Gaberlunzie has tried a coupleof times meats with the neat Nokia trick that "you have left some section or other incomplete" (the waste of time being enough for you to give up completely!)

Skype's free calls on computers have become an Internet use since start in 2003 and it has some 520m registered users around the globe. But so far it has made little progress in wireless, as most telecoms operators have seen this as a risk to their core business of voice calls.

Nokia said it was seeing in total around 1.5m downloads a day from Ovi Store, compared with around 1m three months ago. Gaberlunzie is full of admiration at how the 0.5m (ah, but they may be in the US and supported by their telecos!) must have struggled to get there!

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