Here’s what Skype looks like when Grandstream designs it

By Phil Wolff, on September 20th, 2010

Skype designed software for Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android smartphones, Nokia tablets and Symbian phones. With the launch of SkypeKit, Skype is encouraging others to design their own versions of Skype, either as a full Skype client or as Skype features in another app.

Grandstream built their own Skype client for the GXV3140 IP multimedia desk phone. If you have a GXV3140, you can point your phone’s browser to the firmware page (Beta Test page) and download the latest version. Skype provided Grandstream with broad design guidelines, which remain a proprietary secret. The team could pick any combination of SkypeKit features. The Grandstream team took six weeks to learn the SkypeKit SDK and build a working prototype, fast as these things go. Let’s walk through the 31 screenshots below and see what they chose to include or leave out, what to emphasize and and what they chose for defaults that change user behavior.

This is what the phone looks like (below). The GXV3140 supports video calling with sister phones, without Skype. The screen is 4.3

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