Skype video chat android app coming this year! Get Ready!

According to Skatter Tech’s contact with the company, Skype are planning to bring a mobile video calling app to the Android Market later in 2010, and it will be freely available rather than limited to a single carrier.

“Skype envisions a world where video plays a larger role in the way
we communicate. The next generation innovation involving video calling
will not be bound to the computer. We’re seeing a proliferation of
video calling shared between all kinds of connected devices. It’s on
computers (today 1/3 of all calls on Skype happen via video),
televisions (Skype bringing video calls to living rooms via Panasonic,
Samsung & LG partnership), and it will eventually be coming to mobile devices
too. We’re betting big on video, and we intend to set the bar on mobile
video calling, and it’s something we’re going to do this year.

We will be bringing a direct to consumer app to the Android
marketplace later this year. This application will be available for all
consumers globally to download regardless of carriers. (i.e. similar to
how we offer the iPhone app today)”