July 6th, 2007
Nokia N800 user gets Skype up and running-thx to firmware upgrade
Dan, who writes the Nokia Tabletblog under the name ThoughtFix, emailed me this morning to let me know that he’s installed the firmware that lets Skype run on the Nokia N800.
Firmware- Software Edition 2007 version 4.2007.26-8 for Nokia N800.
With Firmware installed he’s successfully made Skype calls over the N800.
Here’s a freeze frame from ThoughtFix’s YouTube video of his Skype activity on the N800:
So how did ThoughtFix achieve this capability?
His Skype-related log from late last night:
- 11:12 PM Arizona time - 2 min, 2 sec left to download
- 11:16 PM first boot completed and local settings set Ignoring backup for now
- 11:18 PM Skype is there! Bare applets Rhapsody pre-installed too
- 11:23 PM - Running that restore now too. Looking for a changelog.
- 11:25 PM - Restore complete. Reb0oting.
- 11:27 PM - Applets came back on restore - Skype and Rhapsody moved to Extras
- On click, Skype loads application manager and installs. Apparently it’s not bundled. 4.59 megs
- 11:36 PM Skype installed. Creating video. Doing a test call with Steve from UMPCPortal
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