I do not care what any fan droid says. Apple hit a home run with there face time app. I use it every day to see my son and wife. The quality is truly amazing.
No one said that Facetime wasn't well done. In fact, for mobile video chat, it's my favorite. (As more in my widely flung family get LTE, that might change.)
It's just incompatible with any other brand device, which makes it useless for those of us with families and friends using all types of devices, whenever both parties don't have an Apple device handy.
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Originally Posted by drblank
I think Apple was the first to integrate video cameras into their products and include the software as part of the base installation.
Video calling was a feature that was included around 2003, in areas that had 3G. For example:
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"The big draw for Three's 3G service in Hong Kong is video calling, and it really works. It's sometimes blocky and compressed, but pretty smooth.
Three told me that work-obsessed Hong Kong bankers like to use video calls to tuck their kids in at night."
Video conferencing on Android devices simply don't work right. You have to have the app installed, accounts setup and credit cards all setup before you can make calls, and even then the quality is questionable.
The best universal app is Skype, and video over 3G can be downright terrible.
Also, not every Android phone has a front facing camera believe it not!
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Originally Posted by ifimple
I do not care what any fan droid says. Apple hit a home run with there face time app. I use it every day to see my son and wife. The quality is truly amazing.
No one said that Facetime wasn't well done. In fact, for mobile video chat, it's my favorite. (As more in my widely flung family get LTE, that might change.)
It's just incompatible with any other brand device, which makes it useless for those of us with families and friends using all types of devices, whenever both parties don't have an Apple device handy.
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Originally Posted by drblank
I think Apple was the first to integrate video cameras into their products and include the software as part of the base installation.
Video calling was a feature that was included around 2003, in areas that had 3G. For example:
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"The big draw for Three's 3G service in Hong Kong is video calling, and it really works. It's sometimes blocky and compressed, but pretty smooth.
Three told me that work-obsessed Hong Kong bankers like to use video calls to tuck their kids in at night."
- PC Mag 2004
Does that last sentence sound familiar? And that was six years before Facetime.
Even Cingular had a video phone in 2005 on its fledgling 3G network.
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But before that time, it was expensive specialty systems that did video conferencing and Apple does use Open Standards to do it.
Skype is also "based" on Open Standards. But, as with Facetime, proprietary pieces block everyone else.
The best universal app is Skype, and video over 3G can be downright terrible.
Also, not every Android phone has a front facing camera believe it not!