In late June, Skype announced a general plan to improve its many mobile apps, and today a new part of those plans was put into motion with a Windows Phone 8 app update that brings noticeable performance improvements.
The Skype blog has the change notes on the new 2.8 version, which includes some upgrades for starting and resuming the app in Windows Phone 8. The blog states:
It’s now much faster to return to the app when it’s in the back stack. If you open the app and then hit the start button or turn off the screen, pressing the back or power button now gets you back into the Skype app much more quickly. You’ll also see some general improvements to the start experience.
The app also changes the Live Tile experience for Windows Phone 8. Instead of just showing all of the unread messages, the Skype Live Tile now just shows the number of any unread conversations. The Skype team made this particular change thanks to feedback from Windows Phone 8 users. Finally, the Skype app can now be downloaded from the South Korean version of the Windows Phone Store for the first time with this new release.
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