01 October 2006

Technical hurdles delay Skype for Symbian!

Niklas Zennström, CEO of Skype

Reuters and MS mobiles reports about quite interesting interview with Niklas Zennström, Skype's chief executive in a Finnish newspaper on Thursday.

It seams that we will still have to wait some time for Internet telephony company Skype's mobile service on Symbian phones because of some technical hurdles and a lack of suitable handsets!?

A technical hurdle sounds fine but lack of suitable handsets is the quite strange statements, especially considering how good and powerful Symbian phones we have at the moment and fact that he claimed that Skype will be available for handsets made by Nokia and others last year.

However he said: "We have no publicly available products yet to offer and I can't give you a timetable."

"When we begun developing the mobile phone version we didn't realize the number of technical obstacles. It is challenging and is taking much longer than expected," he added in an interview with the daily.