Skype Instant Messaging Now Available!

As of this morning we've just released an update to the EQO Beta that allows for both Skype™ calling *and* Instant Messaging from your mobile phone. This is an exciting feature that will definitely get the community excited.

Our dev and test teams, after pulling an all-nighter (thanks team!), are presently napping. We're quite ready for the deluge and it's exciting to see all the interest that this feature has garnered. We've also expanded handset support to more than 40 phones!

The EQO Mobile Internet Phone Service for Skype™ is a J2ME-based application that rides on your mobile phone handset and lets you use GPRS to make and receive calls and instant messages on your phone, and track the status of your Skype™ buddies in realtime.

We think this is a cool service and we're proud to keep bringing you improvements.

Thanks also to our thousands of Alpha and Beta testers who are also helping to improve our software immeasurably through your enthusiastic and supportive feedback.

-Ian.

PS - We've received some great early coverage from conversations with Rhonda Ascierto, Om Malik, and Bill machrone. We're just getting started.