Hm, I’ve always been a bit sceptical with Skype. Too closed source, to closed protocol, endless possibilities of abuse in case the protocol got cracked, or some government-related service or other convinces Skype Inc that its in their best interests to backdoor all clients. And I since at my workstation I used only chat anyway most of the time (for which there are plenty other products out there), I kinda failed to see the point.
Now there’s Skype for Android, that has changed a bit. Having cheap VOIP software on my phone is quite a value proposition. Despite the news blurb, it seems to run ok on Android 2.0.1 (on Motorola Milestone). Some things don’t seem to work (file transfers, eg.), and it uses an improbable amount of space (some 13Mb), but generally it seems to work. Well, there goes…
