Skype Video Calling Now Available on iPhone

Boom! Apple and Skype finally agree to allow Skype’s popular video chatting compatible with the iPhone. Amazing. The cats out in Cupertino are starting to cooperate with people now. Can you feel the love tonight?  And it’s available IMMEDIATELY.  We didn’t have to wait for CES or MacWorld!  Holy sh#t!

I heard of some rumblings that Skype was going to release this but to wait until CES next week to look behind the wizards curtain.

Skype’s official iOS client finally has the ability to make video calls, allowing it on:

• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 4
• 4th-gen iPod touch

iOS Skype allows users to have real-time video amongst together iPhone to iPhone, but also with users of Skype’s Windows, Mac, and Linux clients along with the ASUS Videophone.

3GS phones obviously don’t have the convenience of a front-facing camera, but they can still broadcast video from the rear-facing camera.

Additionally, if you have an iPad or 3rd-gen iPod Touch, you’ll be able to receive video from others and broadcast audio only. The service is free and works over both WiFi and 3G. Skype has a huge PC presence, so this Skype iOS functionality may put a pinch on FaceTime usage.

No word on when Android, Blackberry and other mobile OS’s will be video-capable for Skype.

There will be “plenty more” announcements in Vegas next week, Skype promised, so who really knows. But, iOS Skype is available in the iTunes Store, go grab it. [I'm gonna get it on my iPad, immediately after I hit Publish.]