Two developers from Skype have mentioned in Skype's official support forum that the article from ABC News (also reported in 1SRC ) mentioning that company founder Niklas Zennstrom mentioned that the PalmOS version of Skype is coming out next month (October), is not true.

Skype staff Jaan mentions, " for the record: i would be surprised if the 'promise' in the article came from anyone actually associated with skype (and not just some journalist making things up). "  and "... i don't think niklas would say that. also note how the article uses clever wording to make it *look* as if it came from niklas, without actually saying that." Jaan goes on and comments about the Palm hardware being weak, " well, i'm not a spokesperson for skype, so my answers are not 'official' in that sense of the word. i'm just a developer who happens to know that porting to palm is extremely difficult because the platform is completely different from the platforms skype runs on today. also, i've too heard that palm's hardware is rather weak."

On a direct question from a member asking "So no PalmOS version of Skype?", Skype staff Terminus supports Jaan by answering, "True. At least not in October 2004. About more distant future no one can tell." Jaan also mentions, "i would have ignored this thread, but i just wanted to have a record to point to in october when there will be a flood of 'so, where's the promised palm version?' messages. silly journalists.."

From the same thread, a member points out that the Palm OS is not the issue since VL Inc.  has created a similar VoIP application that works on the Tungsten C and T3.

Thanks to JamesC for the tip.