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Ipad 2 with skype??
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No Skype app for the iPad. You could use the iPhone version on your iPad but thats just...eh
Hopefully now that the iPad has cameras we will see Skype come with an iPad app.
Hopefully now that the iPad has cameras we will see Skype come with an iPad app.
Sorry, this marriage will not take of.
Facetime is the answer,
so any hopes for a freebeie via Skype - forget it ??
But facetime cameras are in iphone 4's and they allowed skype video calling for that.
Is it just a case of skype have not yet made the app? I have not heard of apple rejecting it.
Video calling using skype is the main reason why im getting an ipad..... and it's the only reason my dad will be getting an ipad.
IF they want people to support facetime then they need to bloodywell support the people! Windows user dont have a facetime client, and what the hell am i meant to do..... i run linux.
Skype is cross platform, can call out to real numbers and has been around for years....
APPLE: Do not force me to use facetime if i can use it across all my systems.
IF they want people to support facetime then they need to bloodywell support the people! Windows user dont have a facetime client, and what the hell am i meant to do..... i run linux.
Skype is cross platform, can call out to real numbers and has been around for years....
APPLE: Do not force me to use facetime if i can use it across all my systems.
I agree with the others above - the video feature is one of the things that moved me to get an iPad. Video on the iPhone is OK but it is just too darn small to make it really work.
Two things hit me:
1. How does anything know what will work on a new device that no one (other than maybe Steve Jobs) had tried yet and for which a Skype program isn't yet available.
2. Of course there wasn't a skype for iPad1 since it didn't have the basic features needed.
I presume that Skype will develop an application but we can't know that for a fact until it is done. I'm also surprised they don't have an iChat application for the iphone and ipad. We've found that on our desktops and latptops that iChat has some of the best video chats. The three way conversations on iChat are really cool - they make it look like everyone is sitting at a conference table.
Two things hit me:
1. How does anything know what will work on a new device that no one (other than maybe Steve Jobs) had tried yet and for which a Skype program isn't yet available.
2. Of course there wasn't a skype for iPad1 since it didn't have the basic features needed.
I presume that Skype will develop an application but we can't know that for a fact until it is done. I'm also surprised they don't have an iChat application for the iphone and ipad. We've found that on our desktops and latptops that iChat has some of the best video chats. The three way conversations on iChat are really cool - they make it look like everyone is sitting at a conference table.
It's a given the iPad 2 will get Skype since we already have it working for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. I use Skype alongside Facetime. However I find Facetime's video quality to be significantly better than that of Skype so I try to use Facetime instead whenever possible.
You should be able to run the iPhone version. It will look pretty crappy, but Skype has crappy resolution anyways.
Developers are supposed to check for device capabilities, not specific devices so that future hardware is duo ryes if they never update the app again. So it should just check for a front facing camera, and it should find it just fine.
But no one will know until it is released.
Developers are supposed to check for device capabilities, not specific devices so that future hardware is duo ryes if they never update the app again. So it should just check for a front facing camera, and it should find it just fine.
But no one will know until it is released.
Don't expect Skype app for iPad until much later in the year. Remember how long it took them to enable 3G calling? Uh huh, exactly.
Don't expect Skype app for iPad until much later in the year. Remember how long it took them to enable 3G calling? Uh huh, exactly.
Or more importantly, where's video calling for Android Skype? It's ironic some online love to make fun of iOS users being restricted to video calling on wifi when Android users can't even use Skype for video calling anywhere.
Don't expect Skype app for iPad until much later in the year. Remember how long it took them to enable 3G calling? Uh huh, exactly.
I don't agree. Of course I'm simplifying, but if both iPhone 4 and iPad 2 are running ios4.3 and Skype works great on iPhone 4, why wouldnt Skype work as hard as possible to put out an iPad version to further broaden their presence and halt the advance of FaceTime? Unless Apple specifically put in roadblocks for apps to use the cameras on iPad 2, which also wouldn't make sense for apple, I'd fully expect to see Skype on ipad 2 relatively soon. My two cents.
Alternatively, you could buy a device based on your actual needs, rather than what you want just because Apple make it. Now there's an idea