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Skype is coming to the iPad.

Skype vice president of consumer and product design Rick Osterloh revealed the plan in a conversation with TUAW, according to PC Mag. He did not release a timetable for the video conferencing app made especially for the iPad 2, but he said Skype expects Apple to approve the app very soon.

Skype launched an application for the iPhone in 2009. The iPhone 4 contains the popular FaceTime feature, however, which allows users to video chat with one another on a phone call when wireless Internet is available.

The iPad 2 released earlier this year includes dual-facing cameras which makes video chatting on the product a natural, so Skype has been hard at work to get its iPad app ready and through Apple's approval process.

PC Mag noted that the iPad version of Skype should be similar to the iPhone app in terms of functionality.

Users should not expect to have the full functionality with Skype's iPad app that they get from using the base program on a PC or a MAC computer, however. File sharing won't be possible, for example. Still, Osterloh told TUAW that Apple has been super supportive of Skype's iPad app.

The program will be free for users, including dial-up, video and audio as long as they aren't conducting conference calls - just like Skype's PC and Mac version. Users will simply have to pay data usage fees for connection to their 3G service unless wifi is available. Skype's iPad app will be able to call Android smartphones and other operating systems compatible with Skype.

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