iPod touch Facetime: Between an iPod Touch & a MacBook?

[HappyDude20]

In about 5 months i'll be moving to Japan for a few months (4) and am seriously considering the iPod Touch.

I have a MBP and am wondering if there'd be any way to video chat with my MBP in Japan, facetiming with say my folks' who are residing in California.

Obviously if I had an iPod Touch along with them we'd be able to facetime from different continents but am curious about that iPod Touch>to>MacBook (or any webcam computer) compatibility.

*As a side note i'll mention whats running through my mind right now:

Considering i'm gonna be living over in Japan for a while and wanting to video chat with family, i'd be willing to rid my iPad for 2 new iPod Touches..so they'd each have one. This is really only a consideration cause the old dinosaur laptops my parents have don't even have web cams, or even more than a gig of RAM.

Sigh, ah thoughts.

 

[Satori]

In about 5 months i'll be moving to Japan for a few months (4) and am seriously considering the iPod Touch.

I have a MBP and am wondering if there'd be any way to video chat with my MBP in Japan, facetiming with say my folks' who are residing in California.

Obviously if I had an iPod Touch along with them we'd be able to facetime from different continents but am curious about that iPod Touch>to>MacBook (or any webcam computer) compatibility.

*As a side note i'll mention whats running through my mind right now:

Considering i'm gonna be living over in Japan for a while and wanting to video chat with family, i'd be willing to rid my iPad for 2 new iPod Touches..so they'd each have one. This is really only a consideration cause the old dinosaur laptops my parents have don't even have web cams, or even more than a gig of RAM.

Sigh, ah thoughts.

You can't use facetime to call a macbook from an iPod touch but Fring should do what you need.

 

[HappyDude20]

You can't use facetime to call a macbook from an iPod touch but Fring should do what you need.

A bit confused here.

So my folks' have a facetime ipod touch, of which they open the fring app to video chat with me...


..using what service though? Google Voice? Skype isn't supported anymore..

 

[Satori]

A bit confused here.

So my folks' have a facetime ipod touch, of which they open the fring app to video chat with me...


..using what service though? Google Voice? Skype isn't supported anymore..

Sorry I wasn't clear...

Fring will work with services like MSN and AIM as well as Google Voice.

 

[donlab]

skype

what about skype? does it not support video calls on Ipod Touch?

 

[joe1946]

fring Version 3.3.1.2 for Retina display

http://itunes.apple.com/app/fring/id290948830?mt=8

 

[Brewstermax]

You can't use facetime to call a macbook from an iPod touch but Fring should do what you need.

I do forsee such compatibility in OS X 10.7, however, that could be some time in the future, and I do not know what your plans are. FaceTime is an open standard, anyone can access it. But, as of now, only iPod touch and iPhone are FaceTime compatible.

 

[M-5]

Have they improved on the Fring service since they started video conferencing on the iPhone? Because when they started it a while ago, I used my iPhone 4 on wifi to chat with my sister on a MacBook Pro on wifi and the video quality was horrendous.

Edit: and I don't think it was my connection speed because I also tried FaceTiming with an Apple rep right after and the quality was like night and day.

 

[Guiguiga]

YOU should be able to make skype calls throughout all platforms and devices that support skype. I'm also hoping I can install skype on the touch and use its camera as well.

 

[ct95]

Facetime is not possible to a Mac, but I imagine it has to be coming soon, probably within the next several months to a year? If not, there's gotta be an app for that.