{"id":757,"date":"2010-10-06T14:12:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2010-10-06T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:00:24","slug":"skype-on-android-2-1-but-not-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/skype-on-android-2-1-but-not-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype on Android 2.1 but not in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year and a half after Skype launched a version for the iPhone (March 2009) it finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2010\/10\/skype-comes-to-android-free-voice-text-over-3g-but-not-in-us\/\">released Skype for Android<\/a> for customers outside the US. In the US Skype has already been available for Verizon customers for a couple of months, but if you&#8217;re with a different US network you&#8217;ll still be out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>Even outside the US, Android versions before 2.1 are not supported. My Google Ion which comes with Android 1.6 got this message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sorry, Skype is unavailable for your mobile. We add new handsets all the time so check back soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/nexus404.com\/Blog\/2010\/09\/11\/android-2-2-market-share-growing-google-shows-that-froyo-is-gaining-in-marketshare-looks-like-fragmentation-is-dying\/\">about 30% of Android users were still using 1.5 or 1.6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me even keener to find out when an Android 2.2 upgrade will become available for the Google Ion, as announced in May 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year and a half after Skype launched a version for the iPhone (March 2009) it finally released Skype for Android for customers outside the US. In the US Skype has already been available for Verizon customers for a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/skype-on-android-2-1-but-not-in-the-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-skype","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}