That said, its most useful feature -by far- is the option to cap your data spending so you're always in the know on how much of your data is used. Skype Lite provides all the features offered through the original official Skype app while taking up half the memory space on your phone. Best of all, the only thing you need to gain access to any and all of these features is an active Microsoft account. You'll find: IM capabilities, tools to easily send photo and videos, video calls, voice calls, and so on. Also another new and very interesting feature is the possibility of using bots, thanks to which you'll become even more productive.Īside from these new features, Skype Lite offers everything you would expect from an app bearing the Microsoft name. In addition, get to keep track of all your data usage. Users on Skype Lite will find new features to revamp this app, such as SMS text support and automatic syncing with your phone contacts.

This app was developed with India and neighboring countries in mind so it performs very well even with limited Internet connections. Hopefully this will help out future S4 Skype app users.Skype Lite is a much less hefty version of the popular Microsoft app, which offers practically the same features as the original, but takes up less than half the space on your phone.

I'll stay w/ the hacked version rather than go back to the Google Play version. So, in a nutshell, we managed to get video calls on the Skype app to work, but it just requires some patience (i.e., some call attempts).

On other calls, only the earpiece volume worked. After a few more call attempts, that also worked! (FWIW, we both used our respective Wi-Fi networks, not VZW's 4G LTE.) The audio was a little buggy. Then I asked him to use his Skype app (he also has the Google Play version). Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. Users may exchange such digital documents as images, text, video and any others, and may transmit both text and video messages. It took a few call attempts, but it finally worked, we were both able to see each other. Skype for Android is an application that provides video chat and voice call services. I first asked him to use his PC, which I know works. Then I tried to Skype w/ another family member, who also has an S4 on VZW like me. It works for her on her HTC One when she Skypes w/ her phone to my PC. I tried to Skype w/ a family member on a different network (I'm VZW, she's on Sprint) and it didn't work (as in just audio, but no video). I uninstalled it and tried the hacked version that SebaKL linked to. If you recall, Google Play version of Skype didn't work for me. Here's a recap of my latest Skype experience on my S4.

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