What’s this app for?
This is the app for making or receiving calls from your
contacts or anyone via either your phone or skype. Note that there’s an obvious
issue with this app if you’re on your PC J
Does it do the job it
was primarily designed for?
Goodness knows. I’m on a PC and I’ve not got any mobile
dongle stuck in any USB port, so that’s all out of the window. In fact, the app
seems to be missing some features because of this obvious lacking ability of
the average PC to be a phone because all I see is the following (minus the
black marks I’ve put in to protect the innocent).
The app just shows ‘History’ and ‘Speed Dial’. With no phone
features as yet inbuilt into the majority of PCs, this is our lot for the humble
desktop Windows 10 user. On the plus side, it’s not a complete waste of space
this app, because you can right-click a user in the history list and initiate a
skype call. Well, I say call. The default and only option is a video call. I’d
have liked to have had the option for a plain voice call but hey ho … no. If
you click on any user in the history or speed dial list it’ll immediately bring
up the skype video app and start calling. There’s no “Are you sure?” etc. Aside
from this excitement, you can right-click a contact in the list and delete the
history information, start a video call, or slightly more interesting, just
view the call history with that contact.
Basically, any skype call you’ve initiated from your
computer via the skype video app or skype for desktop app should appear in this
app in the history. However, no sane PC user is going to ever call up this app
to view that information for many obvious reasons, not least that there’s no
reason to do so when you can either use the skype video app directly, or more
logically use the skype for desktop software.
Settings wise there are no settings. Hmm. There are other facilities
to search your call history or bring up the “Phone Book” (which is a modified
list of contacts from the People App who have phone numbers) but that’s your
lot.
What’s the
alternative?
Well, if one was going to make a phone call I’d use my
phone, not this app, because … well, I shouldn’t need to explain that for the umpteenth
time J
For skype video calls though, one is better off using the skype video app or
just skype for desktop.
Hit, Miss, or Maybe?
Miss; this app is absolutely pointless for the majority
of desktop based Windows 10 users. It has nothing compelling, even from a skype
video perspective, for anyone to even bother to load up this app to make a
skype call. All it really does is add an extra unnecessary step to the process.
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