http://www.skype.com/download/skype/mobile/21beta.html

• Multi-chat support, including animated emoticons.
• One click access to Skype from the home screen.
• Profile editing capability, including the ability to take a picture with device camera and update Skype profile.
• Enriched contact lists - view contacts' mood messages and avatars.
• Contact search - users can now search for and add new contacts from their device.
• Skype Launcher - Skype is now started through a small "launcher" application that checks the available memory and verifies that Skype is installed correctly; the Skype launcher also results in improved start-up times.
• mproved call management - Skype now detects incoming mobile calls, and offers the user the choice to hang up or ignore the call.
• On device help guide.
• improved Windows Mobile 5.0 support.

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Currently have SCHi730 with the Windows Mobile2003SE (*didn't want to upgrade to WM5 b/c of several friends that ruined thier SCH with it).

Tried to install Skype Beta - keep getting message
"Application Manager cannot install the application on your mobile device due to an invalid setup file. Reinstall and try again"

Any sage advice?

Download it again - sounds like, for some reason, you got a corrupt file -- or better yet just download the cab file, copy it to your device, and just install it there. Under the "downlod button" on the Skype download page look fo rthe text that says:

"<small>Beta release. Version: 2.1.0.53. Release date: August 15, 2006</small>. Advanced users can also download the .cab file directly."

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Actually, now that I copied and pasted the text here from the Skype page, I see that you can just click on the above link to download the cab file.

IF you want to install skype, using the cab file, anywhere other than main memory, on WM2003, you will need to use a utility like cabinstl. I have attached this utility to this post.

For anyone else wanting to use the cab file, you only need to use cabinstl on WM2003 -- WM5 has the ability to direct where you install software built into the operating system.

Hope this works for you.
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Attached Files

cabinstl.zip (147.0 KB, 78 views)

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Jim,

Thanks so much for the advice. But...

I d/l'ed it another time or two to make sure I did not have a corrupt file. I then tried just d/ling the .cab file. I installed cabinstall as well - but, when I go to install it on my SHCi730 - I get the following error message

"The file" /Program Files\SkypeforPocketPC_Beta.CAB is not a valid Windows CE Setup File"

Is anyone else running into this problem, or am I being dense?