Skype for Windows Phone 8 Preview 2.1: Stakes around improving reliability and performance


Available since January 02, 2013, this release includes improving reliability and performance of the application, especially around background notifications and calling.
Skype announces also having temporarily disabled the People Hub
integration as it was causing issues with device stability. ‘’We are working with the Windows Phone team to resolve the issue and to enable the integration again in a future release.’’

Here is a complete list of changes: Updated chat keyboard with improved autocomplete/autocorrect is now available; Buddies from Windows Live Messenger are labeled in the People list; Added option to enable toast notifications for Windows Live Messenger buddies.
As some improvements, henceforth ,Chat messages will appear in correct order; the reliability of presence and chat and call notifications when the app is closed etc.

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