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FaceTime Wi-Fi only in 2010, it is now 2011...What's Next?
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You mean 2011, right? Or are you from a different planet?
Joking aside, maybe we'll see a FaceTime over 3G option that would cost 5 or 10 dollars a month (hoping for the latter). Who knows.
Damn! It takes me some time to get that right.
Yes, I meant 2011
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Stop whining. Either jailbreak your phone or go buy some pos android phone that does it out of the box. Otherwise gtfoi lol
Stop whining. Either jailbreak your phone or go buy some pos android phone that does it out of the box. Otherwise gtfoi lol
Three-way FaceTime, ya I don't think so. "Don't forget it will also work over 3G" sounds very confident, and while it is the implication of the OP, we don't have enough information yet to assume that.
Supposing the iPhone does come to Verizon, however, I believe the carriers will compete over wireless features, not price of data plans. In other words, it would really pressure them to offer FaceTime calling over 3G, among other things such as increased data caps, download limits on individual files, etc.
3G quality sucks tho. plus anyone that has an iphone or buys anything on itunes can facetime, so once they release facetime on windows and the mac version comes out of beta, i would say more people would have facetime.
personally i have more friends that have an iphone or a mac or an itunes account on windows than a skype account...
I do the same thing every year as well. It takes a few months, but the mistakes are fun to laugh at in the meantime.Damn! It takes me some time to get that right.
Yes, I meant 2011
This is kind of why I want to believe FaceTime will be over 3G. More carriers, more competition. When Steve says "Wi-Fi only in 2010" you can only assume that the 3G version is most likely to appear in the new year - 2011. I expect it this year. What makes you doubt? On the other hand, what do you have against 3-way video calling?
A likely scenario. I know maybe a small handful of people who use Skype - a service of which I don't even use myself.
Steve said wifi only in 2010 as that was a certainty, Apple are probably working on having it over 3G, but do not want to commit to more details. there may or may not be facetime over 3G this year, it's anyones guess. I won't expect anything.
i'm not saying it won't happen, just saying that i'm not holding out any expectation. they obviously did not want to commit and only knew it would definitely only be wifi in 2010.
I am really hoping for 3G FaceTime, and an integration of FaceTime email addresses (used on mac beta & iPod touch) with the phone number system used on the iPhone 4.
Other advances I hope for.... (this is more a wish list on some points.)
Integration of FaceTime as standard in Lion mac os x.
Integration of FaceTime in iPad, extermal camera dongle for existing users.
A windows beta of FaceTime. (win xp-win7)
FaceTime support from other cell phones, maybe an android app? (it would be great to have a universal standard, without the hassles of skype and other im's)
Other advances I hope for.... (this is more a wish list on some points.)
Integration of FaceTime as standard in Lion mac os x.
Integration of FaceTime in iPad, extermal camera dongle for existing users.
A windows beta of FaceTime. (win xp-win7)
FaceTime support from other cell phones, maybe an android app? (it would be great to have a universal standard, without the hassles of skype and other im's)
When Apple makes FaceTime an open standard, maybe. I hope it will catch on soon.
Have you used Skype? The quality is horrible especially on the iPhone (it's almost embarrassingly bad). FaceTime actually works really well and the quality holds up even on bad connections (I'm using My3G to use it over 3G). It's a good standard. Now if they'll just open it up like they said they would we'll see more usage.
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I don't think it would work very well with the size of the screen; I don't Steve would either. I don't really have anything against it other than that nor do I have any need for video calling in the first place.
you misunderstood what i was saying.
Apple did not want to commit to anything more than wifi until they sort out 3G too.
you do realise there are other networks that have the iPhone, so it won't be just AT&T if it's down to the carriers.
If AT&T would allow it, there would be no reason for Apple to not implement it. Other networks could be involved (but for most of domestic iPhone calls it would just be AT&T), but if those other networks are not allowing it, those people could just FaceTime over wifi and not the cellular network.
There is no technical reason for FaceTime not to work on 3G as it works fine over 3G if you've got a jailbroken phone and My3G.
Let's just say AT&T is lazy and doesn't want any more unnecessary traffic.
As i said, there's not just AT&T, there's other carriers around the world. AT&T doesn't dictate it, look at MMS, people suspected it was cos of AT&T that MMS was witheld, when it did come out, it came out around the world before AT&T finally allowed it. if FaceTime is wifi only, it seems that it's Apple's choice, as other carriers would pick it up around the world on 3G by now.
judging by the quality of fring and skype over 3G, it's easy to see why they kept facetime to Wifi only.
Yup. I've been doing FaceTime calls on 3G since day one. Luckily, i kept my unlimited data plan.
Yup. I've been doing FaceTime calls on 3G since day one. Luckily, i kept my unlimited data plan.
The quality of those apps suck, period. I did a wifi to wifi Skype call to my girlfriend in the next room over a 50 Mb/s connection and it still sucked. I've yet to see a video app that remotely compares to FaceTime in quality.