Skype for Windows Phone 8 official preview is now available!
Microsoft (MSFT) has made Skype for Windows Phone 8 official preview available in Windows Phone Store. New features include Skype contacts within People Hub, while you will be able to sign in using either Microsoft account or Facebook. You’ll be able to send messages through messenger, and more importantly make calls and chat even the app is running background. New Skype app also has now Live Tiles, which allows notifications to show in it, ex. someone send you a message, you can now see it in Live Tile as a notification.
This is not the final product and it still has some flaws in it, as you might guessed already. Incoming calls will sometimes tap into your cellular data even you’re connected to Wi-Fi, also only incoming calls when the app is closed will delivered through audio(so no video calling allowed yet when app is running background). If you want to try Skype app on your Windows Phone 8 device, check out the link below.
Source: Windows Phone Store
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