I think I’ve heard about Skype from more people than there are in China. I’ve finally decided to download and try it out.
Cross-platform – nice.
RPM package is available for Fedora Core 3, which worked just fine on Fedora Core 4 – nice.
I don’t have not even a single microphone – not nice.
Even if I had, talking would have been difficult most times (office people or kid shouting or sleeping at home) – not nice.
Possibility to call regular/mobile phones from the computer for an extremely low price – nice.
Chat is built-in – nice.
User identification is based on nicknames, not emails (which change) or ugly long numbers (which are impossible to remember) – nice. (My nickname is mamchenkov, by the way).
Without any contacts and without microphone, I can’t really check the functionality or the interface thoroughly.
Do any of you, guys, use Skype? How do I contact you?
Harley_LRN ;-)
Thanks ;) Testing… Looks good. :)
Mine is justckr. Skype rocks.
Constantinos,
Skype says that it couldn’t find neither justckr, nor ckr… Are you sure you typed it correctly? :)
Thats strange, the skypename is justckr and I have others on my contacts to confirm it :P. I’ve added you, you should get a message saying if you want to add me.
Yup, I found you. It was probably skype problem. ;)
forget Skype! GTalk (and generally Jabber) forever! :))
Sergey,
1. I had only negative experiences with Jabber so far. Maybe that’s just me. Maybe that will change.
2. Jabber, AFAIK, does not support any voice messages even between two clients, not to mention conferencing with a mix of regular phones. (hint: not everyone can type as fast as they can talk)
3. Jabber has no cool gadgets, as does Skype. (try making my wife type in Russian, instead of talking on a phone-like appliance, and you’ll know what I mean)
4. I don’t think I’ll trust Google with my IM. While I do trust ICQ and other commercial companies with my IM data, Google is the only smart enough company to actually do something with the data I’m providing.
Are you going to order
Go wireless with Olympia Cordless DUALphone ?
Lev,
not yet. It seems that it doesn’t work on Linux. If anyone will confirm otherwise, then this is a very probable choice. ;)
Seems so, but you can fix that lacking :)
Lev,
not necessarily… ;)