Skype Celebrates 100M Skype Installation With New Skype Update

 

Skype installation on android devices have passed the 100 million mark.

Skype have seen its share of success since it debut on smartphones and yesterday that growth becomes evident even on the Android platform as 100 million Android devices have Skype installed on them.

In return for this landmark, Skype have decided to push out an update that adds a totally new and revamped User Interface (UI) to its VoIP application for Android devices.

The new update which is version 4.0 add a one-touch navigation method to the various menus.

This enables do user to move from one menu to another by just one touch gesture. For example, clicking on a user's image bring out the calling function, which also gives you the ability to just send a message or another tap to activate the video calling menu. All these done by a single tap and presented in one interface.

While the UI is sleek and nice, some basic and already familiar functionalities are missing which is currently making some users  not interested in keeping the update on their devices.

One of the complains is the inability to set the "Away/Busy" status and the only options available is "Available/Invisible" which is also hidden deep down in the users account option.

Another problem is the inability to quickly sign out of the app if need be.

These missing features couples with push notifications not being present which are quite essential but not present in the new update and are already generating dislike for the new update.

While the new UI is good and flow at least well to an extent, it seemed as though the entire app was done in a rush thereby sacrificing usefulness and functionality for UI.

Skype should quickly fix this anomaly so that users can be happy again and the 100M celebration won't be a problem instead of otherwise. 

Must Have Apps For Blackberry Phones

Though the Blackberry device doesn't have as much apps in the App World compared to Apple App Store and the Google App store, yet there are some great applications that are worthy to be mentioned.
It's so annoying that if not all then most RIM devices do not give you the opportunity to capture screen or take screen shots.
Many smartphones already have that feature embedded in them except of course if one is to call Blackberry phones a semi smartphone; although that is about to change come January 30th.

In other for Blackberry phones users to take something as trivial as screen shots, an app have to be downloaded to make that happen.
One the most popular screen shot app used by a lot of Blackberry users is the Screen Muncher.
I used it once and I didn't like it at all.
I hate the crunching sound it makes and the watermark it places on the image with reduced image quality.
Consequently, I decided to look more into similar apps that are silent, doesn't include watermark and gets the job done excellently. This makes me discover a lot of must have apps for Blackberry users even in the App World.
Have made a list below for you to know them and give them a try.

1. Screen Shot Capture Pro
This little app 78.6kb in size does exactly what it's suppose to do. It captures the screen without any irritating sound or watermark. It just captures your screen and save it a folder called Screenshot. The image quality is high and not reduced at all as you can see from the image below.
 
2. Contacts To Excel
This application gives away its function just by its name.
It exports all your contacts to excel format and make a back of them for you. this way you can view and transfer your contacts freely even to another Blackberry device  or smartphone if so please.This is particularly of use to those that don't have Blackberry Protect to help backup their contacts.

3. Social Lock
This should interest a lot of people. Have you ever wished to lock your BBM without locking your phone altogether in other to reduce access to your bbm messages? Then this app is for you. This little app help you create a lock for all your social applications like Twitter, Facebook and of course Blackberry Messenger.
Once installed, your social apps can be configured with a lock code.
Chat Lock: Lock for BBM does the same thing and also very useful.

4. Pattern Lock For Blackberry
I know some of you peeps would have at one time envied the Android device users due to the way they unlock their phones with pattern unlocking methods.

Well, owners of touch screen Blackberry devices can benefit from this kind of unlocking method.
All you have to do is download this application and you are good to go.

5. Fancy Fonts Free
Wish to spice up the way the fonts of your text look a little bit? then this app is for you. It allows you to install fonts into your device text look beautiful and nice.