do you know if that version or any versin of skype works with the photon or evo 3d?
My understanding is that it was a hacked version of the Skype app done specifically for just the Droid3. People were annoyed that the D3 shipped with the front-facing camera but there was no way to really use it for anything much. So, some very bright coder over at XDA solved that little problem for us.
Susan and I just installed this version, and after enabling the Video Calls option it seems to work just great over 3G. Kind of cool !
Since we don't have source from the XDA guy, there is no way to be absolutely certain this version has not been hacked in some malicious way as well, but I think that is unlikely.
I can't say personally anything about the photon or evo3d. I have heard enough to know those are other Android phones, but the Droid3 is my first and only smartphone ever. My older son got an original Droid a year or so ago, and I tried it and thought it was sluggish and the keyboard was not useful, and the virtual keyboard was impossible for me, so I stuck with an old LG VXsomething flip-phone. Then Verizon announced that if I didn't get an unlimited data plan by such and such a date, I would never be able to, and I had to get a smartphone in order to get an unlimited data plan. I got a Thunderbolt and Susan got an X2, but within the 14 days we both upgraded to the newly released Droid3's, for various reasons. No regrets. So, anyway, I'm new to all this. The Droid3 is like a really small laptop, lighter than my Toshiba Portege even, with built-in GPS !