Internet phone company Skype announced the availability of their Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony service for Apple’s iPhone and the BlackBerry, a smartphone manufactured by Research in Motion (RIM), as per the Reuters reports. The application, which is available on Tuesday for the iPhone and Wi-Fi enabled iPod touch would come to BlackBerry devices this month of May 2009.
With more than 450 million registered users, Skype has long been the most demanded mobile application across the globe. Clients from third party developers such as Truphone and Nimbuzz allow Skype functionality on the iPhone, and Nimbuzz also made Skype available to BlackBerry users, but this is the first Skype-powered application for either device.