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Skype Now Available for Nokia Belle Symbian OS

Chuong Nguyen —  02/03/2012

While owners of Windows Phone still have to wait for a native Skype solution despite Microsoft’s acquisition of the VoIP telephony company, owners of Nokia’s Symbian smartphone with the latest Nokia Belle, former called Symbian Belle or Symbian^3 Belle, can now download the Skype app.

Unfortunately, though, it doesn’t look like video calling is supported at this time on the Symbian version of the Skype app, and users would be only limited to VoIP calls and messaging.

Still, the delivery of Skype to Symbian will be significant to Symbian owners who travel or want to conserve on their voice calling plan minutes or SMS use every month as calls and IMs on Skype will be routed through a mobile broadband plan. Skype is also another notable and high-profile title for Symbian users as in the past owners of phones running the Symbian platform have complained that there weren’t enough big name titles available.

The free app can be downloaded through Nokia Store on your device, which was formerly branded as the Ovi Store.

Nokia Belle is available on the Nokia 600, 603, 700, and 701 smartphones. Older models like the Nokia N8, E7, C7, X7, C6, and E6 should be receiving their updates to Belle shortly.

Via: All About Symbian

Chuong Nguyen

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Tech enthusiast in Silicon Valley enjoying the possibilities of ubiquitous connectivity, information sharing, and collaboration enabled by mobile broadband. You can contact Chuong on Twitter @chuongvision or with the same ID on Skype.

8 responses to Skype Now Available for Nokia Belle Symbian OS

  1. I can’t see it when I search the store from my 700

  2. i can’t find skype for my c6-01 belle,
    what can i do???

    • guindulman888 06/26/2012 at 3:28 am

      me too, i have used skype on my C6-01 for a long time but recently it’s been removed from my phone and when i search the app on nokia store it says my phone is not supported? why?

  3. Heng Sze Sze 06/26/2012 at 5:55 am

    I’m now using Nokia C7, and I would like to use Skype on phone
    could you please advise me where can I download the Skype and
    is it available for my phone.

    Thank you

    Best regards

  4. guindulman888 06/26/2012 at 11:22 pm

    Try getjar, just type getjar on your mobile broswer and search the skype application, and if your mobile phone has a skype support then you will be able to download it from getjar.

    • I download skype from getjar on nokia 603 but it is not working.
      Can anybody assist me regarding this?

  5. How can I get skype for nokia n8 upgraded to belle? Please please please help me, I need the link to download it from.
    Thanx :)