{"id":3696,"date":"2012-02-27T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2012-02-27T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T10:16:59","slug":"try-the-skype-beta-for-windows-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/try-the-skype-beta-for-windows-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Try the Skype Beta for Windows Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay Windows Phoners, you&#8217;ve been hanging out for this for a while and now there is light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Skype for Windows Phone is now in beta as\u00a0per\u00a0<a title=\"Windows Phone at Mobile World Congress 2012 | Windows Phone Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/windows_phone\/b\/windowsphone\/archive\/2012\/02\/27\/windows-phone-at-mobile-world-congress-2012.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this announcement on the Windows Phone Blog<\/a> and you can try it out for yourself. However, it seems to be region locked perhaps to the USA which means trying to download it via Zune can be problematic.<\/p>\n<p>The way around it for the time being seems to be visiting <a title=\"Skype | Windows Phone Marketplace (Mobile)\" href=\"zune:\/\/navigate\/?appid=c3f8e570-68b3-4d6a-bdbb-c0a3f4360a51\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> on your Windows Phone and you should be able to download it straight away. Bear in mind though, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>this is beta software so there may be bugs and it might misbehave so proceed at your own risk!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, get into Skype on Windows Phone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay Windows Phoners, you&#8217;ve been hanging out for this for a while and now there is light at the end of the tunnel. Skype for Windows Phone is now in beta as\u00a0per\u00a0this announcement on the Windows Phone Blog and you can try it out for yourself. However, it seems to be region locked perhaps to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/try-the-skype-beta-for-windows-phone\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67,152,151,423,853,18,65,674],"tags":[2246,2319,2337],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications","category-instant-messaging","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-skype","category-skype-instant-messaging","category-technology","category-voip","category-windows-phone-7","tag-microsoft","tag-skype","tag-windows-phone-7","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Skype-Logo.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}