More confirmation Video Chat for the iPhone 4G

[AMcBroom81]

I cant wait for Video Chat, it will be a great way for my son (age 2 ) to see his grandparents without pressing all the keys on my macbook pro. this way He can see and talk and just hold the phone. not alot of tempting buttons to press😀😀😀

 

[TheOrioles33]

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Totally don't get video chat. Never use it on my mac and would be far less likely to use it on a cell phone. But it's one less thing for people to whine about not having, so that's good. 😉

EXACTLEY!!!

 

[knewsom]

I cant wait for Video Chat, it will be a great way for my son (age 2 ) to see his grandparents without pressing all the keys on my macbook pro. this way He can see and talk and just hold the phone. not alot of tempting buttons to press😀😀😀

Heh, I know what you mean! Just the ONE BIG VERY TEMPTING one... it took my 2 year old the last year to learn to resist pushing it while watching a movie on my phone, even though he knows it turns the movie off, every single time.

 

[AMcBroom81]

no more telling the boss you're sick at home, from the golf course.

P.

Maybe apple will include the photo booth effects in the phone version, that way you can set your phone on your golf bag get out of frame, then step back in and make the call.

it would be cool but I doubt they will do it. Just a wish for next time though.

 

[BrettJDeriso]

How's a fella spozed to sneak around anymore??

Between video chat and location-based services, it's getting really hard to blame the party noise in the background on "the TV" 😀

Can't wait to ge tmy hands on this beauty!

 

[AMcBroom81]

Heh, I know what you mean! Just the ONE BIG VERY TEMPTING one... it took my 2 year old the last year to learn to resist pushing it while watching a movie on my phone, even though he knows it turns the movie off, every single time.

LOL I know what you mean, he loves watching yo gabba gabba on daddys iphone 😀,

it goes off and hes like, gabba go bye bye, so I have to turn it back on for him. love it.

 

[ucfgrad93]

Totally don't get video chat. Never use it on my mac and would be far less likely to use it on a cell phone. But it's one less thing for people to whine about not having, so that's good. 😉

The only time I ever use it is too talk and see my daughter who is in college. Even then, it is only about once a month. While it seems like a cool feature, I don't think I will use it much on my iPhone.

 

[Sweetbike40]

Is video chat part of the data plan or voice plan? Wondering if AT&T will charge for this feature. I really have no use for it being nobody i know actually uses video conferencing. I think it's silly unless you have kids or are a kid. but just hoping ATT doesn't increase anything for anyone buying this phone. that would suck. i just hope there is a $199 version of the new iPhone and rates don't go up at all.

 

[optophobia]

I went from not understanding why people want video conferencing to actually using video conferencing once I had kids.

I suspect it's the same for many others.

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I agree. I love talking to my neice and nephew overseas via video chat.

 

[paradox00]

I can think of a situation where it would be really useful.

- Where are you?
- I dunno... what is this place? There is a building, like...
- Show me where you are.
- OK.
- Oh, I see. Wait there, I'll be in a second.

You don't need video conferencing for that. I can already snap a photo and send it to you while still on the phone with you.

 

[Beric]

To all the people saying video chat won't work over 3G, it doesn't matter. This feature will be jailbroken instantly. I'm assuming that cross-service video chat (iChat, MSN, Yahoo, Skype) will also be a jailbroken feature.

 

[Dainin]

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100% of deaf and sign language users want this!!!!

Problem is ATT won't sell data only plans to deaf people, at least in my experience. All of my deaf friends have gone through sprint, unlimited data and text, no voice plan required.

 

[badpinoy]

Could video chat be possible over the 3g network or just wifi?

my guess for the time being just over wifi, but for those that video chat know how annoying the lag time can be. it will be even more annoying on any type of mobile phone. it would be pretty annoying to watch a video with someone that has shaking hands wanting to video chat.

 

[CFreymarc]

Those dweebs you're mocking are the same people who invent 99% of the technology you're praising.

Yup and the hot crowd that drives the hottest car doesn't give a crap about the automotive engineer that made it either. Live with it.

When was the last time "Hey baby, I wrote that software." work to impress a girl? Saw someone try that at G3, what a joke!

 

[CFreymarc]

Why are you dissing the kind of people that invented pretty much all of the technology you are using? Do you seriously believe that everyone should be like you? Are the people in Apple's ads seriously your ideals? Do you not find the kind of image of people they convey with their ads disgusting? What are those people except excessive, materialist and facile?

They are called customers with money and a social life. Get used to it. Technology is going mainstream the way NASCAR stopped promoting to automotive gearheads and to the mass market in the 80s.

 

[Flavioparentiq]

The bear future sounds like a frightening place.

🙂

Yeah, autocorrect by the iPhone 🙂
but if you check the stock exchange, i guess my iPhone knows more than i do 🙂

 

[ReallyOldGuy]

Same here, but also I can see how a company would like this. Nothing says we have an eye on you if your VP is calling you on video conference and your not where your suppose to be, or your with a client and you hand over the phone and its a top executive talking there with you and the client.

The ipad is where it would also be welcomed, even more but that will be rev. 2 haha. 🙄

I was surprised that the mention of business use was 55 posts in. I spend at least 2 hours a day on Skype (with video) talking to business associates and clients in Texas, Argentina, Greece, UK etc.. I solve problems and negotiate deals, I need TO SEE who i'm dealing with and this will open even more opportunities. i am very excited about the iPhone HD will sell my iPads when they come out with front facing camera

 

[HONDAxACURA]

I think video conferencing could be useful at times. As for myself, I wouldn't use it. But it is useful for another person to see what you're seeing. I know of multiple times where I wished I had video chat so I can show my friends what I'm looking at.

It would be great if it came out. In anycase, the front camera is great for taking self portrait or taking pix with another friend.

 

[Solinus]

I was surprised that the mention of business use was 55 posts in. I spend at least 2 hours a day on Skype (with video) talking to business associates and clients in Texas, Argentina, Greece, UK etc.. I solve problems and negotiate deals, I need TO SEE who i'm dealing with and this will open even more opportunities. i am very excited about the iPhone HD will sell my iPads when they come out with front facing camera

I'd have thought a shaky handheld video would appear very unprofessional. Do you really want to carry a dock around with you?

 

[ranguvar]

Yup and the hot crowd that drives the hottest car doesn't give a crap about the automotive engineer that made it either. Live with it.

When was the last time "Hey baby, I wrote that software." work to impress a girl? Saw someone try that at G3, what a joke!

They are called customers with money and a social life. Get used to it.

I really hope you're drunk and don't actually believe in what you're saying... 🙁

 

[casik]

If video chats require special "video calling" minutes than this will be an incredible lame feature.

If video chat uses your data plan and functions as some sort of iChat for iPhone than this feature I will use OFTEN.

It's as simple as that.

 

[itsthetouch]

uh oh...and people thought sexting was bad...just wait till this gets out.

 

[CFreymarc]

uh oh...and people thought sexting was bad...just wait till this gets out.

Thinking the same thing myself. I am sure someone, somewhere is trying to write a "pornography identification filter" to try to stop this but that is a HUGE heuristic that is not well defined.

Technology is neutral, how it is used shows the character of the user. What totally baffles me are these psychotics that buy an Apple product and destroy it for an internet video the day it sells to the public.

I can see it now, the day this new iPhone is sold to public, someone posts a video destroying it. This time, it is with this next generation iPhone video chat feature turned on as some SOB smashes it with a hammer so you can see it destroyed from the perspective of the iPhone.

 

[TallManNY]

I don't know anybody without a front faceing camera on their phone, except the ones who have iPhones. Video chat is just a feature of UMTS/3G, and even the first UMTS phones in 2003 had this feature. I got my first phones with a front facing camera in 2005. At least in Europe it very hard to find a 3G capable phone without video conferencing capabilities.

Do people in Europe do a lot of video conferencing on their phones now that they have had such capabilities for years? By "a lot", I'm thinking at least 10% of their voice calls. If it is still below that point, then either the implementation is terrible or people don't want to do video conferencing on their cell phones.

 

[CFreymarc]

I'd have thought a shaky handheld video would appear very unprofessional. Do you really want to carry a dock around with you?

I am betting good money this new iPhone will have image stabilization and a ton of other video processing features for this and an API for the next generation of "power tools." You still read this forum Kai?

It will not just be "a cam on a phone." There are a ton of patents for handheld video conferencing that I am sure Apple has licensed for this. It may be able to block out the background an put in whatever custom background you want if the edge detection code is right.