Skype for Your Mobile in beta for Java-enabled mobile phones

Skype for Your Mobile in beta for Java-enabled mobile phones. Skype has recently launched a Java ME based application to allow mobile phone users to take advantage of the low-cost phone calls and chat with their Skype buddies. Still in beta, Skype mobile "thin" client works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

There is an extensive list of features offered by this version of Skype for Your Mobile, making it even more easy to use and convenient for users. The beta version is available worldwide with features such as chat, presence, and you can receive calls from Skype users as well as through Skypeln.

Additional features, which include the making of Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls from the mobile handsets, are initially supported in seven markets: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The application can be downloaded from www.skype.com/download/skype/mobile/