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hey guys this is tom from the verge and we got a quick look at Skype for Windows Phone ok so we're just going to launch the app here from the home screen you can see there'll be a little bit of a Skype animation to begin with and then you'll be presented with your sort of recent list here so yeah recently missed calls or chats and all that sort of stuff and there's a notification at the top there just to signify that as well and if we swipe across to contacts you get full list of all your Skype contacts you can obviously go in you can chat with them now you could swipe across again to get their profile and their profile image there and let's just try called Jamie so that there doesn't seem to any sort of search on the UI here but you've got the sort of classic search where you can go in and tap on the actual letters to get to uni contacts just going chat to Jamie and real actually try and give him call him on the video now what you'll notice is it automatically spins it to horizontal so even got a vertical view there but when you're going to chat it kind of it takes it back out of that let's just see hey Jamie he video okay so here's the video here there's not there's not much in terms of customization so you can't can't drag this window around you still got the notifications at the top there and but it's fairly clear and trying to move around Jamie dance come on there you go disco Jamie but yeah it's fairly fluid I mean it's working pretty good there so and you can swipe across to get to the chat we'll see end the call or switch it back just a standard audio caller we're just gonna say goodbye Jamie thank you okay as I say it was kind of strange day it's fixed in the landscape mode day now if we go back to recent we can go to the calling interface so you can also use the application to dial a standard number so mobile or landline okay so one thing we've noticed is it doesn't appear that Skype can run in the background so it can't accept calls when you're in an other application for example so it's just demonstrating how that works at the moment we're just going to try and call the phone here and you get the call dialog here now if we actually just put out the application you'll see that it's canceled the call and so if we try and initiate a call now there will be no sort of notification on the Windows Phone side so it's ringing on the Skype phone here I'm just waiting and what we're probably hear in a minute don't forget to pick it up please leave a message after the beep so um so you get some kind of Skype voicemail which we haven't signed up for so we don't know what's going on there and but it works well when you're actually in the client so and we show that now you can obviously accept the call and then you can change it into a video call I know that's the meet one so you can turn the camera on there Gainey is going to go horizontal and you can also turn the camera on and switch camera so we can have the rear facing camera and but overall is a pretty decent app for a first look at Skype for Windows