Hello List,
I really like the current interface of Skype when you open a Contact. It is very straight forward, everything is beautifully labeled and read by Voiceover. You now have just 4 buttons for call options (in the case of a Skype Contact) and they are in 2 rows with a left and right button in each row as follows: Video Call button, Voice Call button IM button, More button When you double tap on the More button, you get either 2 or 3 choices and a cancel button. You always have the options for "Send Photo" and "Send Video Message" and if you have also saved a phone number for that contact you have, in addition to these options, an option to "Send SMS". If your Contact is a Skype Out number, e.g. just a name with a phone number, you have only 2 buttons: Voice Call button, SMS button If you swipe right past the SMS button you do hear Voiceover say "Video Message" and "IM", but it does not say button and you don't hear these options when you move your finger around the screen (unless you do it really fast and eradic), but either way, they are not announced as buttons since you can't do a video call or send an IM to just a phone number, I guess Voiceover reads the label but they are not actually buttons. One thing I noticed for the first time is that the DialPad is very slow. If you manually dial a phone number, the dial tone plays quite long and after it stops it takes a good second and then Voiceover announces the number you double tapped or split tapped and it will say "paste" for some reason. If you try to split tap or double tap another number before this has all finished it doesn't work so each number takes about 2 seconds before you can dial the next which means dialing a 10-digit phone number is a painfully slow process. I'll report this to Skype and if some others do as well hopefully they will do something about it. I really wish Apple would allow VoIP apps to allow for touch mode dialing like you can do in the stock Phone app instead of forcing us to double or split tap each number. Luckily this slow response is not happening when you activate the DialPad to dial numbers during a call, but you still have to double or split tap each number. Also, if you activate the DialPad during a call or even tap on the "Show Options" button, there seems to be no apparent way to dismiss the DialPad or pop up window with Show Options. In other words, if you have the DialPad active and you want to end the call the End Call button is not there, just the DialPadwhich makes for a nice clean look, but might baffle some people. I tried the "Go Back" gesture which is that z-shaped or zigzag gesture with 2 fingers and it works well to get rid of the DialPad or the Show Options choices. OK, I think that's all I noticed and thought I post about. In short, the Skype app is beautiful, fully accessible with a couple of extremely minor flaws but which can be worked around. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
