14 DAY TRIAL // Skype has just announced that it has updated its Symbian application with support for Symbian^3 mobile operating system and improved call quality. The update also contains a number of interface enhancements
The new update makes it easier to add contacts, navigate, add a photo to the users’ profile, as well as set their mood message. In addition to these features, Skype has also updated the interface to better fit larger screens.
Skype application lets users make free Skype-to-Skype calls and instant Messaging on 3G or WiFi. Users will be able to cut their bills on calls and texts especially when they are abroad. Sharing pictures, videos and other files from the phone through the application is another trait of Skype.
The full changelog of the update is detailed below:
New features:
- Support for new Symbian devices: Nokia N8, C7, C6, E5; - Added SILK audio codec support; - Support for multi-part SMS from Skype (longer than 160 characters); - Address book e-mail addresses integration for contacts search. Improvements:
- Profile view look and feel improved; - IM text size changing possibility; - Improved the look and feel of profile, contact list, authorization IM, calling and SMS areas.
According to Skype, the new SILK audio codec makes the sound like the other person is in the room with the caller.
Skype has worked on its own speech codec to capture the full frequency range of a user's speech, transmit it over the network and reconstruct it at the other end.
The SILK speech codec takes human voice and converts it to a format suitable for sending over the Internet, and then on the other side, converts it back to speech.
By default this isn't something that carriers are doing, as networks are simply designed to convey the frequency range of human speech to make the call intelligible enough.
Skype for Symbian can be downloaded for free from Softpedia.