During the past week my wife and I upgraded our mobile phones and made a major shift away from Blackberry to Android. This ends (for me) an era which began in 1998 when RIM gave me an Inter@ctive Pager (aka the RIM-900) as part of a pre-sales effort to convince Verifone to use a RIM data module in their Omni 3000 handheld credit card terminal. I'll have more to say in future posts about why we made this change, but for today I'm focusing on the ongoing lameness that is Skype Mobile. You'll recall that I wrote last month about how Skype Mobile's privacy features are sorely lacking because it doesn't allow you to block IM from people not in your contact list. It also doesn't offer you the ability to report abuse via the mobile client.
During the switch from Blackberry to Android I'd hoped that these limitations would prove to be a limitation of the Blackberry client, but alas the lameness extends to the Android client as well. Queries to Skype support have proven fruitless; they basically have said "Skype Mobile doesn't filter non-contact IMs. Thanks for using Skype Mobile." This needs to get fixed. I'm going to launch a Twitter campaign against @SkypeMobile to put pressure on them; if you're interested in lending your voice then follow @W6DTW.
