In the days before cell phones and applications like the new Skype for iPhone, there was this thing called the hotel room telephone.
Here’s how it worked. You’d pick up the bedside phone, dial to get an outside line, dial a number, and talk. Then, when you’d check out, the front desk clerk would give your bill. And you’d wonder: How could a 10-minute call home cost more than a lobster dinner and bottle of wine from room service?
But that, as they say, was then. Now when you’re traveling, you can call home and talk for hours, for free, thanks to Skype (and other Voice over IP services). This week: a look at the new Skype for iPhone app.
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After much anticipation, Skype recently released its free iPhone app to complement its free Skype-to-Skype VoIP calls. PC World’s Liane Cassavoy gave Skype for iPhone a favorable review. My experience with Skype for iPhone so far has been …