Skype closed beta comes to BlackBerry
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 20th 2009 8:38AM
posted May 20th 2009 8:38AM
We're pretty sure that Skype won't rest until its made every last carrier in the world squirm uncomfortably as they watch their old-guard business models flirt with obsolescence, and the next platform to get the treatment -- long overdue, may we add -- is going to be BlackBerry. The company has now taken a handful of signups to apply for a private, closed beta where users will be able to check out the goods in prerelease form, which hopefully means that a public release isn't too far off; between this, Windows Mobile, and the iPhone, they've now taken a pretty good chunk out of the smartphone market. Actually, we think we can see the shiny beads of sweat forming on carriers' foreheads from all the way over here -- except for you, 3. You're looking as cool as a cucumber.
I have been using iskoot for the blackberry for a year plus and it works great!! Skype FTW
Damn! The beta sign-up is closed due to an 'extensive amount of signups'...
I don't think anything but good will come from Skype becoming widely available on all phones, not just for WinMo and Blackberry. I don't really count iPhone in there 'cause iPhone doesn't allow for its use while outside of a Wi-Fi network (which is rediculous in my opinion but I guess AT&T, Rogers / Fido, and every other carrier that got it didn't want fires bursting out of their towers for severe overuse of the data network when people tried to save money on calling long distance). It'd force companies to really reconsider how much they charge us, the end users, to place phone calls to loved ones and colleagues who aren't necessarily all that close to us.
So much for a May release....
Yeah +1 for a May release... How about a June release? Well since we are halfway through June, I would say late Q3-Q4 '09. I hate release dates. They are never correct.
Wel... it is already July