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Facetime, how many are using it?
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Totally Free, unless you are using a wifi hotspur for which you pay the monthly bill. Apple or your service provider won't charge you a dime.
I haven't used it in months. The only people I know with an iPhone 4 are my parents and sibling. None of my friends have one yet, so it doesn't get much use out of me.
im the only one that uses iPhone 4 here, everyone is using a freakin BB!
so i joined ftfun.com to chat with strangers all over the world and i make 3 FT friends and we keep in touch, that's cool to have a friend outside my country, so someday when i go to their country, i've got a place to sleep
so i joined ftfun.com to chat with strangers all over the world and i make 3 FT friends and we keep in touch, that's cool to have a friend outside my country, so someday when i go to their country, i've got a place to sleep
I use it multiple times a day. Family & friends scattered around the globe. Fast, fun & free. What's wrong with that?
I use FaceTime atleast twice a day to connect with friends and family who are out of province. I live in Canada, and I also use the Yahoo! App to keep in touch with my friends and family that don't have an iPhone 4... but let me tell you, alot of my friends/family are dying to get an iPhone 4! It's amazing.
i use it pretty frequently, at least once a day. since im jailbroken, facetime over 3g! so pretty much anywhere i go i can facetime one of my friends
My girlfriend and I use it about twice a week. I'm jailbroken as well and can make FaceTime calls over 3G. If she doesn't have wifi we use Tango, which works great too. I'm still hoping for skype to enable video calls so I can make some mobile to PC video calls. Yahoo messenger was laggy as hell.
well apart from apple fanboys, everyone else including myself think its a novelty = don't give a crap
Skype >>>>> Facetime
24 inch monitor, Higher quality, higher framerate ,etc etc
Skype >>>>> Facetime
24 inch monitor, Higher quality, higher framerate ,etc etc
My little brother also has an iPhone 4. But we both haven't gotten FaceTime to activate yet, so no.
Do you travel for business? Do you have family overseas? Do you have kids who live in another part of the world? For you it may very well be a novelty.
For some of us, it's a great additional means of keeping in touch with others who are far away or for when we are far away. And it's free.
Don't assume everyone lives life as you do or that you have to be a so called 'fanboy' to appreciate an application on the iPhone. Yes, there are other means of doing the same thing. That doesn't negate the positives of this method.
Well said, and I agree 100%. Being in a band and on tour for weeks at a time, the ability to use facetime to see my wife and daughter without the need to travel with a laptop is fantastic.
Ok maybe novelty is the wrong term... niche market I guess
If they wanted this thing to really be revolutionary they would have used a universal client that can talk to other devices, and works on 3G
for the rest of us, with computers,laptops,webcams, etc its an inferior way of webchatting
The thread is about Facetime, not THAT.
I've used it once, since I got my iPhone. My wife might want to get an iPhone now after seeing it in action, since she can talk with the family easier. BTW, so nice to be able to Facetime via 3G, since I'm jailbroke.
Use it all the time to call the kids when I'm working away from home (which is pretty much every week now).
I don't know if I would use it with anyone else, but it is fantastic for anyone with young children. Getting to see your kids before they go to bed every night when you're on the other side of country is priceless.
I don't know if I would use it with anyone else, but it is fantastic for anyone with young children. Getting to see your kids before they go to bed every night when you're on the other side of country is priceless.
I pretty much agree, but I can see some positive uses for it. It's a gimmick for the most part.