mCUE Product Line Now Skype-Enabled for Android-based Devices

OEMs and ODMs that need a quick and economical way to speed Android (News - Alert) OS-based devices to market have reason to cheer, as D2 Technologies announced that its mCUE product line now fully supports Skype's (News - Alert) SkypeKit SDK.

 

" Skype has continued to increase in popularity, and with more than a third of its calls today including video, it's clear that a reliable, high quality media engine is a key component for any new device entering the marketplace," said Doug Makishima (News - Alert), COO at D2 Technologies. " mCUE has been optimized to enable next generation IP communications over the Android operating system on mobile devices and new applications such as digital TV, IPSTB, HD media players, tablets and MIDs, and IP media frame/phone applications. Recent enhancements, such as HD voice via wideband CODECs, video call and multi-radio/multi-network seamless voice call handover, mean that OEMs and service providers can use mCUE with the SkypeKit SDK to economically deliver today's most in-demand consumer electronics into the marketplace."

 

Combining the SkypeKit SDK with mCUE's advanced user interface and high quality media engine offers customers the added benefit of mCUE's advanced multi-mode, multi-session, multi-protocol engine for full interoperability with multiple carrier and enterprise communications systems and other social networking services.

 

D2's patented mCUE is an innovative VoIP and IP communications client that provides users with advanced presence-based and push-to-x control of circuit switched PSTN/cellular and VoIP calls, video chat/call, IM, presence, email, SMS, PBX (News - Alert), and other features typically only available on PC-based unified communications soft clients. Its revolutionary presence-based user interface, built on top of a multi-identity, multi-session, multi-protocol engine, enables flexible interoperability with multiple communications services and, in addition to Skype, social networking services like GoogleTalk, Yahoo!, MSN and AIM. mCUE also provides multi-radio, multi-network seamless voice call handover to provide call cost and voice quality optimization.

 

Read here an article about Skype's official release of "SkypeKit," an open software development kit that helps developers integrate Skype calls, instant messaging, video chat and more consumer electronics and computers. It initially will be available as a beta on an invitation-only basis.