In this article we present you two solutions to the biggest annoyance of Skype™ for Windows Mobile, the speakerphone issue, and we teach you how to use your internal speaker with Skype™ Calls for more usability, flexibility and privacy. Read on for the rest!

First things first: you need to have Skype™ for Windows Mobile installed on your device. You can download it for free from its website. In this stage, all your Skype™ calls (Skype™ to Skype™ and others) will be routed (heard) through the external speaker or the loudspeaker of your device. Some say it’s by design, some say it’s by lack of support but it’s for a fact.

Solution no. 1:

Daniel Álvarez has a free application on his Blog both for Professional and Standard versions, called Windows Mobile – Routing audio through the Earpiece. This application allows you to temporarily route all audio from the loudspeaker to the internal speaker or headset of your device for a period of 10 minutes. After that, settings will revert. All you need to do is run the application, enable routing before making a Skype™ call and there you have it, classic phone-like behaviour.

Solution no. 2:

XDA Developers’ audioswitch which is a very small application that will run in the background and endlessly check for windows that have the titles specified in the command.txt file, in intervals specified in the same file (1000 ms aka 1 sec. is the default). So the principle is simple: watch for window/app names and when a match is found, route the audio. Installation is simple but needs a bit of additional work. You need to download the contents of the zip file and extract to a folder you need to create: “DeviceProgram Filesaudioswitch” or else it will not work. Once you’re there, just launch the app and there you go again: classic phone-like behaviour.

Now some of you might not be happy to have another app running in the background (even though so far with my testing I’ve seen no side effects) so only make sure to launch it before you’re planning on using Skype™.

Note 1: solutions presented in this article might not work properly on all devices.

Note 2: solutions presented above are not Skype™ only and they apply to other VoIP software, such as fring™ too.