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Posts Tagged ‘iPhone upgrades and Skype upgrade’

At around the same time as Apple brought out the iPad upgrade, along came IOS 4.1.1 for the iPhone. A simply upgrade with, for me at least, no issues at all. One assumes that this upgrade was mainly to fix the rather erroneous  signal bars which tend to over-egg the strength of the incoming 3G signal.

I have to say, I’ve noticed no difference at all, apart from the warm glow of knowing you have the latest upgrades. The big upgrade of course was from 3.2 to 4.0 which gave us multi-tasking and folders. I like folders, having been victim very soon after getting my iPhone to the problem of running out of space for Apps. Good upgrade but as for multi-tasking… well, I’m not sure I see the point. Sure it’s nice to play music in the background but now instead of applications automatically cleaning themselves up when you switch, they now just sit in the background wasting space and I’ve yet to find a utility that will simply close the lot at once at the touch of a button.

Of course the BIG opportunity here was to make SKYPE operate properly, sitting in the background with the phone off and taking incoming calls.  Skype were just about the LAST company to upgrade their products and only this week, coincide with the Apple upgrade, came the notice that Skype could be upgraded.

I was there in minutes, patiently waiting for SKYPE to upgrade and when it finally came together…nothing.. the volume control doesn’t work properly (that’s not unusual, Talking Tom ignores the MUTE button altogether) and as for the multi-tasking… well, you can run other tasks and Skype will indeed answer calls in the background but as soon as you turn the phone off…. that’s it, dead!  Now, it’s not impossible because the iPhone, if you think about it continues to read emails when turned off, it continues to take normal calls – and it definitely leaves the WIFI on because at home I have no mobile signal – and it definitely brings the mail in…  so why can’t SKYPE get their act together and make their produce accept calls with the phone turned off, which would let me abandon the need for a separate SKYPE phone??

Time will tell, no-one else seems to have spotted this yet but they will.