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From: News Reader on 29 Dec 2009 03:36 "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:7pt0b2F58eU1(a)mid.individual.net... > I've just acquired a new Skypephone S2 on the 3 Network - which provides > free calls to other Skype users. This is all well and good - except that I > haven't a clue how to find which of my potential contacts use Skype. > > I have set up a Skype account on the phone, and have received a welcome > email pointing me at the Skype website. The Help info on the site suggests > that I should be able to log on to my account (using my PC), and then > click on a Directory tab to search for other users. But when I log on, > there's no Directory tab to be seen - only tabs for managing the account > and buying credits - which I don't wish to do. > > I haven't actually downloaded and installed the Skype application on my PC > because I won't be using it for making Skype phone calls. Do I need to do > so in order to access the Directory? If not, how else do I do it? > > TIA. > -- > Cheers, > Roger > ______ > Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly > monitored.. > Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO > NEWSGROUP! > Hi, Here is a suggestion of two easy ways: i) go to add contact -> enter your contacts e-mail address or name and see what results get offered back ii) install Skype on your PC - then go to add contact -> you will then be able to enter names, e-mail addresses or other details and get a list of search results Hope that helps. Best wishes, News Reader --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: Harry Stottle on 29 Dec 2009 06:10 "CJB" <chrisjbrady(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:421202b0-b804-47bd-93f9-dd3c620a74ed(a)f5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... And you will find that once loaded Skype on your PC will keep being refreshed as contacts come online or go offline. On the S2 you will frequently find that your contacts seem to be offline or away (small grey cross icon or orange icon); whereas on the PC they may well be flagged as being online (small green tick icon). Apparently the S2 does not keep refreshing the list of contacts with each one's availability status. Irritatingly if a contact on the S2 is flagged as offline (or away) then it refuses to connect to it, even if on the PC that same contact is flagged as being online. The only way I've found of refreshing the status of the contacts on the S2 is to turn the phone off and then on again so as to have to re- sign into Skype. This makes using Skype on the S2 an irritation rather than being really user-friendly. So much for being a smart phone - so smart it has to be switched off and then on again to update the list of Skype contacts!! I think you should have a play with the phone a bit more. To refresh Skype contacts on the S2 you just open the Skype contacts list, then click 'Options', and the first option is 'Refresh Now'. Also, you can't expect a mobile phone running Skype, with varying signal strengths, to be as reliable as a computer connected to the Internet, and if your signal drops, of course your contacts available are going to change as you are not available to them, and they are not available to you.
From: Graham. on 29 Dec 2009 06:48 And your contacts will not be able to intitate a call to your S2 either. You'll have to call them - every time. By that, do just mean when they appear off-line to the caller? Because if you are saying incomming Skype calls to the S2 are not possible you are wrong. -- Graham. %Profound_observation%
From: Ian Smith on 29 Dec 2009 07:15 Harry Stottle wrote: > > I think you should have a play with the phone a bit more. To refresh > Skype contacts on the S2 you just open the Skype contacts list, then > click 'Options', and the first option is 'Refresh Now'. Not on mine it isn't. I've updated the Skype application and this option appears to have been removed, although I did see it before. regards, Ian
From: Ian Smith on 29 Dec 2009 07:21
CJB wrote: > > And your contacts will not be able to intitate a call to your S2 > either. You'll have to call them - every time. Not true - incoming Skype calls ring like any other incoming call. > > The S2 is cheap and unreliable rubbish - as is '3's services in > general. Skype is good on a PC, but on a mobile phone - don't expect > miracles ... Half right. It is cheap, but so far I've found it sturdy, well designed and perfectly reliable - with excellent RF performance. regards, Ian |