Judging from the news release and pre-release info, Skype is immensely proud of this feature but I will be honest and say it does little for me. You do not have to pay any hourly or daily fees. You do not have to pay the Boingo monthly fee. When you connect, you pay on a per-minute basis and the fee (roughly 20 cents per minute) is deducted from your Skype Credit. Probably the largest "new" feature is "Skype Access", a service that lets you go to any of the 100,000 Boingo WiFi hotspots and - using Skype - connect to the Boingo hotspot. Ability to add your own notes to contactsĬourtesy of Skype's PR team, I've had a chance to play with the 2.8 beta for a couple of weeks and have these thoughts below.Hidden avatars in incoming contact requests.Mood message chat: mood message updates from your friends as chat messages.Quick Add: much easier to add people to chats.Improved chat management: ability to sort chats in the drawer and set priorities to chats.Here's the quick list of what Skype notes is in this release: Ĭontinuing Skype's rather fragmented product strategy, they have rolled out some new features in this 2.8 beta release that will at least stop us Mac users from whining about Windows users always getting the good stuff first. The new version will apparently be available for download tomorrow, January 6, 2009, from Skype's website. Tonight out at the "ShowStoppers" event at MacWorld in San Francisco, Skype announced the new 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X. UPDATE #2: The 2.8 Beta also includes some experimental support for linking Skype mood messages to Twitter. UPDATE: Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X is now available for download.
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