Skype, the ever popular VoIP may finally bring their own flavor of video calling for iOS devices. Engadget has put together a report that suggests that Skype will announce at CES next month, that they are bringing video calling to iOS devices in 2011.
Here’s an excerpt:
Skype has been telling everyone that it’ll be making a “series of video-related announcements” at CES next month… and it’s participating in a panel called “Video Calling Gets Ready for Primetime,” so yeah, needless to say, we’d have to guess that Skype’s finally getting ready to enter the mobile video calling game in a big way. Anyhow, the final piece in the puzzle filtered into our inbox this morning: a help document on Skype’s site detailing making video calls using Skype for iPhone.
According to a leaked help document this new Skype 3.0 app will be available for iPhone, iPod touch (4th-gen) and curiously, iPad. Either Apple is working with Skype and letting them test the app on a FaceTime enabled iPad (I doubt this very much), or Skype is hedging their bets that the next-generation iPad will have a FaceTime camera, without the certainty of knowing. Anyway, Skype has been on the iPhone for some time now, but that’s the only iOS device it support- just the iPhone.
Now, in another Skype-releated note, 9to5Mac is reporting that the original help document was later removed from Skypes site, but later replaced with one that has this image:
Yes, that’s the Verizon logo next to the Skype logo on a document talking about Skype coming to the iPhone. Why would the Verizon logo be involved with an iPhone-centric document? Well, there might be a good chance that the iPhone is coming to Verizon. More and more reports are suggesting this, so why not Skype too?
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