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Ever since the 1950s, people have sought ways to turn phones into video phones. Who wouldn’t prefer to see the person on the other end of the line? While video chat through Voice-over-IP applications on PCs has finally made this a reality for some people, we haven’t managed to make it happen on our cell phones—and cell phones are what more and more people use to talk to each other
The problem with mobile video phone technology has been that it is scattered across at least a dozen different devices and platforms—each incompatible with the other—so that there is no default method of video chatting. Mobile video chat simply hasn’t caught on—until now. The 4G iPhone, which is expected to feature a front-facing camera, and an operating system filled with lines of code for live mobile video, stands to change the way we communicate. It doesn’t matter that other phones have featured front-facing cameras and video chat software: those phones didn’t have the same potential to reach as many people.
We imagine that social media, business, and even the art of conversation may change once mobile video chat is a part of our lives. Today, we’ve set out to investigate what’s come before, why it hasn’t worked, and why the 4G’s version just might stick.
So....I was thinking, what if you do video chat on a 3G phone? I realize you can, but I realize and learned that the person can only see you, you can't see the person. Is it ONLY because you have to turn the phone around???
No idea, but what i DO know is the day you get video chat on a phone Skype servers are going to be on consta-crash for at least 2 weeks.
The iphone is behind the innovation this time. The EVO already has a front facing camera. Apple's just trying its best to catch up.
now the people will say "apple invents the video chat"
my touch pro has video chat, but it is a European version. USA is so behind. Japan has video chat years ago and so does Europe.
Euro phones have had this for a while I believe
And I thought that apple was way abck while their first iphone had no front camera.. seriously, in europe almost every phone got it since few years already... But even if that's so popular as hardware option, using it os not so popular here, propably due to support for video calls from operators and people not being used to it, propably most of them don't even know they can perform stuff like this...
Interesting article. I did not know the USA was trailing other countries with this technology.
4g (up to 5-7mb per sec) is better then 3g (up to 1.5mb), but technically 3g should be sufficient for most phone use. I have done video chat a computer with just 1.5mb before, granted 5mb is better. We are not going to do google earth on a cellphone are we? True that they are going to have to add another camera on the touch screen side.
why didn't the iPad just include 4g in the first place, except to add it on latter for a new model so people have to run out and buy that.
Apple invents the video chat! Hurray!
and PS. Death to FLASH!
Apple invents the video chat! Hurray!and PS. Death to FLASH!
Because no provider other than Spring has 4G up and running, and Sprint's coverage sucks worse than AT&T!
so im guessing the point of the iphone shuffle is calling random people in your phone book
Do not buy the new iphone 4g now. Waiting for them issue the new Hardware/Software?? This time is it very bad iphone 4g
I want an app for my Evo for free for Oovoo does Oovoo even have that
Is there a FREE "skype" like program that I can use on wifi in airplane mode (NOT 3G) in France? My verizon Samsung Facinate does not allow skype to be used from France