It was all too recent that Windows Phone 8 users managed to get hold of the latest version of Skype for their mobile operating system on the Windows Store, but there was no official word from Skype on the kind of changes. Well, all of that has just changed, with the good people over at Skype themselves detailing just what kind of changes have been introduced into Skype for Windows Phone 8 Preview 2.1. Two main sections were looked into – to improve on the reliability and performance of the application, as well as disabling the People Hub integration. The former concentrated on background notifications and calling, whiel the latter was executed because it was discovered to have caused issues with device stability.
Skype is working with the folks over at Windows Phone in order to resolve the issue People Hub integration, and hope to enable the integration process sometime in the near future. You will also experience an updated chat keyboard, the ability to see buddies from Windows Live Messenger labeled in the People list, the option to enable toast notifications for Windows Live Messenger buddies, among others.
