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"After passing 100 million downloads on Google's Play Store,\u00A0Skype 3.0 for Android\u00A0has arrived, featuring a responsive, tablet-friendly design,\u00A0enhanced audio, and the ability to sign in with a Microsoft account.\r\n\r\nThe general look and feel of Skype for Android been subtly updated, however, everything should feel familiar to Android users. The real difference lies in the app's new tablet support.\r\n\r\nSkype is clearly giving tablets top billing in this release, pitching support for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Google Nexus 7, Acer Iconia, Asus Transformer Prime, Motorola Xoom and Sony S.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBeyond tablets, Skype is touting &amp;quot;a real hike in audio quality&amp;quot; with version 3.0, thanks to its SILK audio codec, which was &amp;quot;designed to capture the richness of human speech.&amp;quot; Skype has supported SILK on PCs for years, but now it has finally made its way to mobile devices.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFollowing Microsoft's announcement that it was\u00A0retiring its Messenger IM\u00A0service in Q1 2013,\u00A0Skype for Android now allows users to sign in with their Microsoft account, allowing you to\u00A0chat with your Messenger contacts from Skype and even merge your accounts. This change comes as no surprise, and should help sweep more of\u00A0Microsoft's 100M+\u00A0Messenger users over to Skype.\r\n\r\nOverall, it's a solid improvement that will likely be embraced by owners of Android tablets like the newly released \u00A0Google Nexus 7. Check it out via the link below and let us know what you think!\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Skype 3.0\u00A0via Google Play"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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