Mobile Skype in Beta

Skype has released a beta version of Skype for mobile phones. The “thin“ client works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, Skype says.

The beta version is available worldwide with a feature set that includes chat, group chat, presence, and inbound calls from Skype users using SkypeIn.

Additional features, which include Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls from the mobile handsets, are initially supported in seven markets: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.