you cant record them on And both parties had to download the hefty Skype app. One of the best new features is the automatic call recovery - drop a call and it’s put in pause. My name is Didi, a Skype Independent Advisor Get more: Skype free. If you’ve paid for Skype minutes, you can call your Facebook friends, and if they’re also signed in to Skype Portable you can call them for free. This is a pretty big thing, as not only does it give you your news feed in the app - anyone can do that - but adds call and SMS buttons to any of your friends who share their contact numbers. The other major development in Skype Portable is Facebook integration. There was also one nice detail, and that's the ability to see your own video image built-in on your contact's video, and the option to take a snapshot of your own image. Video sometimes appeared a bit pixelated, but nothing we couldn't really deal with. The sound quality in Skype Portable during our testing was perfect: loud and clear.
The new interface in Skype Portable is transformed when you make a call, getting rid of all the clutter, so you just see the video images, and controls. This means Skype Portable has been made wider so that video fits in perfectly with your written chat, your contact list and a toolbar to manage conversation.
The program's interface has been completely redesigned with video conferences on mind. These video calls are precisely the main focus on Skype Portable's latest version.
