Skype for Android

No other words it’s AMAZING 😉

I was able to watch a movie with a friend of mine through Skype which was cool. My friend says the movie was good and watching it through Skype. Was a great way to do it.

I have paid for Skype for about 20 years. It was highly functional initially. Ever since Microsoft bought it it has been slow to load the app & open up, slow to display the key pad, slow to respond to the touch, slow to dial, slow to hang up even. By slow, I mean that I often wait 15 seconds for the app to open & it regularly takes me three attempts to dial a number correctly because of the delays in key pad response. Just switching from calls to texts can take touching the button half a dozen times before it responds! I could say more but I think you get the idea. It is barely functional the last few years. Also, I have my settings so that calls will forward to my cell phone if I don’t answer on my Mobile within 20 seconds & even when I’m expecting a call & I push the button on the first ring it forwards the call anyway-very frustrating. Today I was expecting a call so a I went on my computer to stop the call forwarding and received a message telling me that services were not available. The call I was expecting came & I answered it on the first ring but it forwarded anyway so I had to call the person back (I had texted to notify her that this might happen before she called me so she was prepared for it but it takes time to set that up too). I know the delays I experience are not necessary because for years Skype was not like this so it disgusts me that it is like this now!

It is the best

After all this time the screen controls for the Mobile are as broken as ever and Microsoft refuses to fix them. No on screen controls or intuitive gestures seem to fix the messed up modes it puts the local and remote video into. All I can say is thankfully these days there are a lot of alternatives that DO work if MS is too stubborn or lazy to fix this Product that worked just fine before they bought it.