{"id":11647,"date":"2010-03-03T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:18:00","slug":"skype-announced-for-nokia-handsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/11647-skype-announced-for-nokia-handsets.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype announced for Nokia handsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G),&#8221; Nokia said in a joint-statement with Skype.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia has faced rising competition in the smartphone market.<\/p>\n<p>Industry observers have said that the outdated Symbian operating system, which drives most of its smartphones, is one of the reasons many consumers prefer Apple&#8217;s iPhone or Research in Motion&#8217;s (RIM) BlackBerry, which are easier to use.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?219304-Skype-released-announced-for-Nokia-smartphones&amp;p=3665391#post3665391\">Skype released for Nokia handsets<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Discussion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Cellular\/11325.html\">VoIP and Video calling on your iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone giant Nokia said on Wednesday that its smartphone users could begin making free calls after it teamed up with Internet phone pioneer Skype which permits free calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}