6/20/2023 0 Comments New skype updates are ugly![]() ![]() ![]() The same seems to be happening here - it's clear that the Skype coders at Microsoft are testing on the 1520, Icon, 930, and the brand new 730 and 830 prototypes. A phenomenon through the whole computing world since the dawn of time is that programmers tend to code and test on cutting edge monster PCs and then wonder why regular users with far less capable gear complain about application speed. The very fact that Microsoft is promoting Skype as a hero function in new device launches, lead me to suspect that the company isn't testing it on enough handsets. In the video above, the delay was only a couple of seconds every time, but I've seen delays as long as 10 seconds in cases where Skype hadn't been used for a few hours, on my 9. Notice the difference? It seems that Skype resumes immediately and perfectly on any device with a 2014 chipset and skips back into having to effectively reload from scratch on anything older. In the latter case, I do it a pair of devices at a time, for clarity and practicality reasons. used the multitasking carousel to switch back (resume) Skype.switched away to the Windows Phone Store.Having started up each phone from scratch and then loaded up Skype, I then: ![]() Why do I mention the processors? You'll see. This shows the high end Lumia 1520 and the low end 630, both with 'modern' Snapdragon chipsets and hardware 'families', plus the Lumia 1020 and 920, both with the older Snapdragon S4 powering things, all running Windows Phone 8.1. ![]()
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