Skype Video Calling for iOS over Wi-Fi and 3G

Finally! Any news on 3G Unrestrictor problems?

Rule 34 before the night is out!

What is the * on the 3G calling?

FakeWozniak said:

What is the * on the 3G calling?

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This would have been more useful (for me and my family) a few months ago, but because of Christmas, a large majority of my family and extended family members now own some version of FaceTime (iMac, MacBook, iPod touch or iPhone 4), so for us FaceTime is more convenient to use.

But I guess better late than never.

About time, finally!

Oh sure leave us iPad folks hanging for the iPad optimized version.

this is going to blow facetime and everything apple had on video chat right out of the water unless they pull something out of their a*& after CES!

saving107 said:

This would have been more useful (for me and my family) a few months ago, but because of Christmas, a large majority of my family and extended family members now own some version of FaceTime (iMac, MacBook, iPod touch or iPhone 4), so for us FaceTime is more convenient to use.

But I guess better late than never.

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Isn't FaceTime WiFi only?

saberahul said:

Oh sure leave us iPad folks hanging for the iPad optimized version.

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What does it matter? The iPad does not have a camera. Audio-only is sufficient. Skype can worry about iPad video conferencing when Apple releases an iPad with a built-in camera.

Until then, it's a wasted engineering effort.

And yeah, I'm an iPad owner, too. I simply don't understand your sense of entitlement.

ivan2002 said:

Isn't FaceTime WiFi only?

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It is, unless you have 3G Unrestrictor from Cydia.

Flaws

Bug:
Tried using it with a friend and when I answered, his end still said it was placing a call on his computer. Hangs on "Initiating video" till you end the call.

And it lacks one feature... IT WON'T OUTPUT SOUND TO BLUETOOTH HEADSETS ON THE IPOD TOUCH!

Battery life problems resolved yet?

How’s the battery life when not in use?

Can you remain “online” with the app completely dormant, receiving calls via Push notification (the way iOS apps are supposed to work and the way most IM apps do)?

Or does the app keep chewing CPU and battery even while in the background, unless you log off so you can’t get incoming calls? That seemed to be the case with recent versions of Skype: by many reports it wasn’t using proper iOS multitasking, and battery life was impacted even when not using Skype. I tried it for a day or two and seemed to have the same problem. Rather than keep testing, I ditched Skype for many months while awaiting a new version.

I have high hopes, but with Skype’s iOS history, I don’t want to be the guinea pig

Get My3G. No problems I can find there.

jav6454 said:

Finally! Any news on 3G Unrestrictor problems?

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great! i will download now. looking forward to this

Hmm i found a bug. I called a person running Skype on Mac. I could see them but they could not see me even though it said it was working fine. Tried it again and it now works.

Oh MY GOD ITS... ITS... not 9:41

My experience has been that 3G service is slow compared to high speed wifi/ internet. I expect the experience of a video call over 3G would be similar to using a dial up modem.

I chose the 15GB data plan but I think I will drop down to 200MB. Besides checking email once in a while, I just wait to find wifi before attempting anything over the internet. So the 15GB will likely be too much for my needs.

PapaHLZ said:

Oh MY GOD ITS... ITS... not 9:41

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Haha, good catch.

this is awesome, many more people have skype then facetime (devices)....

I haven't even used skype ever before, but hey...may dabble a little with it soon

cvaldes said:

What does it matter? The iPad does not have a camera. Audio-only is sufficient. Skype can worry about iPad video conferencing when Apple releases an iPad with a built-in camera.

Until then, it's a wasted engineering effort.

And yeah, I'm an iPad owner, too. I simply don't understand your sense of entitlement.

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epic as he is wise.

So this renders facetime useless then?

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; es-es) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

This is huge, huge!

Not really. The quality on this new Skype video chat is actually quite poor.