Thread: Is it a Nokia or Skype Strategy?
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-06-24 , 23:46
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#82
Originally Posted by Mara View Post
all I was trying to say is that people seem to be "certain" Skype arrives in few days. (During 1H07 as Ari promised in his blog.) To me it does not look likely at all. Just trying to warn you guys not to hold your breath and turn blue while waiting...
If Skype isn't ready, Nokia shouldn't ship it - simple as that. Nokia will get mauled by any press that can be bothered to review an N800 these days if Skype is less than great.

I'm not sure it would be wise to ship a new firmware without Skype then follow up with another firmware release including Skype a short while later, however if Skype is launched as an optional downloadable install (suggesting updates out of sync with firmware updates) then that's fine by me and a better solution all round I think.

Hopefully the updated firmware ships soon (end of month) with improved existing functionality and bug fixes, with Skype as a downloadable install either at the same time or in a few weeks when it's ready.