This is a crucial point, along with how much battery does it use when actually in use. Skype on OSX uses a lot of energy to do what it does.
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Skype Video Calling for iOS over Wi-Fi and 3G
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This is a crucial point, along with how much battery does it use when actually in use. Skype on OSX uses a lot of energy to do what it does.
...there's only one way to find out!
FIIIIIIIIGGGGHHHHHT!
Without this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np6gyUb0E7o
That's going travel as well as a barrel of Dog to Mountain View, CA.
(as will my comment).
You are right of course.
See you after the break.
Too bad most Apple 3g operators suck!
This would be great, save for the fact that I struggle just to do calling across 3g with Softbank..... and I hear AT&T users have a lot of the same issues. Oh how I long for Vodafone in Germany, my iPHone was useful because it could get good signal and really good internet speeds.
Apple better open up the iPhone to Verizon in the states and NTT/AU in Japan, right now the iPhone is getting beat hardcore by Android phones that you can use on good networks and as these voip/video chat apps continue to proliferate Apple is going to find that remaining with only one carrier is going to be a huge problem going forward, esp. if that one carrier has by far the worst network in their respective countries.
This would be great, save for the fact that I struggle just to do calling across 3g with Softbank..... and I hear AT&T users have a lot of the same issues. Oh how I long for Vodafone in Germany, my iPHone was useful because it could get good signal and really good internet speeds.
Apple better open up the iPhone to Verizon in the states and NTT/AU in Japan, right now the iPhone is getting beat hardcore by Android phones that you can use on good networks and as these voip/video chat apps continue to proliferate Apple is going to find that remaining with only one carrier is going to be a huge problem going forward, esp. if that one carrier has by far the worst network in their respective countries.
Not at all. Facetime actually works and works well. Skype has always been slow, poor quality and buggy, in my experience and after just updating the IOS version for iPod Touch 4, I find it now doesn't work at all! It attempts to make a call but fails to connect every time. So it's Face time all the way for me, Skype have lost it.
Just made a video call from my iPhone 4 to Skype on a Mac. Video quality was good... nice and clear, smooth and good sound quality too. Perhaps AT&T is the problem for those who experienced poor video quality, not Skype itself.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
I just tried it over wifi from one phone to another and it was poor, slow and had a lag of about 4+ seconds. My speed on wifi is 23Mbs so there should be no lag
I just tried it over wifi from one phone to another and it was poor, slow and had a lag of about 4+ seconds. My speed on wifi is 23Mbs so there should be no lag
oh, yes please! a camera on apple tv, so that everyone from apple or who hacks my apple tv can view my flat and whatever i (and friends and everyone else) does infront of my tv!
at least i can close my macbook and the camera is disabled. but for an apple tv camera it would really be another step into "big brother". oh, wasn't that the negative phantasy apple wanted to destroy in their 1984 ad?
and now they turn into something even WORSE???
No, that was something somebody suggested.
Also I would have liked to try this on my iPod Touch 2nd Gen, but of course thats not supported.
Waiting for the new iPad it is then.
I'm a bit surprised Apple let it through - but they might find a reason to ban it at some point "competing with apple programs"
I think they let it though now because they are about to make a big iPad announcement.
facetime 3g - calls billed through iTunes?
Lol. The iPad doesn't even have a camera.
Bout time this happened. Goodbye FaceTime!
It's not all about raw speed. There's more to it than Mbs.... much like the megahertz myth from the old G3 / G4 days.
http://www.pingtest.net/learn.php#grade
Skype has now had two major releases since the iPad came out with no support for the iPad screen. this isn't about the camera, it's about iPhone apps looking like ass and generally being unusable when run on an iPad. I use Skype a lot for IMing and trying to type on that tiny keyboard in the center of a big screen sucks big time.
The code is 99% written, all they need to do is update the GUI so I don't understand why we STILL don't have an iPad native version. Given Skype's glacial release schedules, this means I need to wait ANOTHER six months before any hope of native support.
And my sense of entitlement comes from being a paying customer. The app is free, but the premium services I am paying for are not.
Just called my cousin with it, over Wifi. He says I'm very pixelated but a lot smoother in my actions. Which I interpreted as that the picture quality sucked but the FPS taken by the iPhone forward camera is more than what my Mac achieves.
Anyway, it worked. No bluetooth or airplay integration as of yet, but I'm sure that will come. Anyway I'm impressed. I can 'FaceTime' all my Skype contacts now! Which is more than what I could do with FaceTime as I was the only person with it.
Anyway, it worked. No bluetooth or airplay integration as of yet, but I'm sure that will come. Anyway I'm impressed. I can 'FaceTime' all my Skype contacts now! Which is more than what I could do with FaceTime as I was the only person with it.
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Skype is the cross-platform application with the most widespread adoption.
If you need or want to video chat with people on PCs, Macs, and phones, Skype is your best choice.
Additionally, in my anecdotal experiences, I've found that Skype is able to traverse firewalls and other parts of the network better than the alternatives (including iChat AV.)
Speaking of iChat AV- I still do not understand why Facetime was introduced when iChat AV already exists for making video calls between two Macs. It is hard to believe there was not some way to bring all of this functionality under one umbrella instead of fragmenting it.
If you need or want to video chat with people on PCs, Macs, and phones, Skype is your best choice.
Additionally, in my anecdotal experiences, I've found that Skype is able to traverse firewalls and other parts of the network better than the alternatives (including iChat AV.)
Speaking of iChat AV- I still do not understand why Facetime was introduced when iChat AV already exists for making video calls between two Macs. It is hard to believe there was not some way to bring all of this functionality under one umbrella instead of fragmenting it.
Bye bye wifi-only facetime.
I'm a bit surprised Apple let it through - but they might find a reason to ban it at some point "competing with apple programs"
i was too but then i thought maybe they let it go b/c apple can piggyback off skype's app by getting those folks who don't own an iphone4 (which are millions) to get excited about device video calling then improve facetime for the next version so ppl will want to upgrade their older devices.
maybe. just a thought.
i'm going to give it a shot though. could come in handy at times.