Skype for Windows Phone 8 finally gets Video Messaging in latest update

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By Daniel Rubino
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Skype app for Windows Phone 8, which was bumped to version 2.10.0.251 this morning. The latest update brings along with it some substantive changes, including the previously missing Video messaging.

Video messaging was introduced by Skype earlier this summer and it quickly landed on their iOS and Android clients. Windows Phone though, despite receiving numerous updates since, was left on the side with an IOU from the Skype team. Up until today, Windows Phone 8 users were only able to view Video messages, but now they can also record and send them for free.

Skype version 2.10.0.251 changes

  • Video messaging – Record life’s everyday moments and share them with the people who matter most, with free and unlimited video messaging over Skype.
  • General fixes and speed improvements.

As noted above, users can also expect the usual bug fixes and speed improvements.

Windows Phone 8 users can head to the Store right now and pick up Skype version 2.10.0.251 with Video messaging by clicking this link or scanning the QR code below. Thanks, Matt C., for the tip!

QR: skype

Daniel Rubino
Daniel Rubino
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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007, when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and watches. He has been reviewing laptops since 2015 and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, ARM processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.