Chapter 12
Skype the World
In This Chapter
Getting Skype for your phone
Creating Skype contacts
Typing to your Skype friends
Using Skype to voice call
Making a Skype video call
The holy grail of communications has always been the video phone call. Back in the 1960s, people believed that video phone technology would be introduced in the 1970s and widely available by 1980. Along with our flying cars and food-in-pill-form, the video phone never materialized — until now!
Skype is used the world over as a free way to make Internet phone calls and to text-chat. Plus, Skype offers you the ability to video-chat with other Skype users. It’s not really the video call nirvana that was promised decades ago, but it’s one step in that direction. And it’s something your Fire phone can do, thanks to the Skype app.
The Skype Setup
Using Skype requires a bit of work on your behalf, although it’s nothing ...
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