http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/ Engadget Comments for iPhone video conferencing surfaces in supposed test firmware http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/Good? Yes]]>May 22nd 2010 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
Functional over 3G? ...Probably not.

Functional over 3G in every other country and carrier except AT&T?

...Probably.]]>May 22nd 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
Even if they use h.264 for an iChat-like experience, the reasons I just stated would still prevent me from using it.]]>May 22nd 2010 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
Clearly, you have never been to Japan or Korea...video calls are used MORE than voice calls...well, at least by the under 30 generation...although the video is shaky, laggy, ans choppy, they still use it. ]]>May 22nd 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/Grandparents want to see their grandchildren. But phones and systems past are cryptic and impossible to use. Now if they only made a phone with only one button on the face of it and oh, maybe simple commands that appear on a touchscreen. ]]>May 22nd 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
People will say this is useless til the cows come home. I wish I had a dollar every time someone said camera's on a cell phone were "useless" too.

Things take time to mature. ATT will eventually get that network buttoned up]]>May 22nd 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
love AT&T]]>May 22nd 2010 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/Cameras on a cell phone are not useless and in my opinion never were useless. Video conferencing on the other hand is totally useless on a cell phone.]]>May 22nd 2010 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
What I'd like to see (ha, GET IT?!?) is the ability to pop in and out of video conferencing, like say you're walking down the street talking to your friend on a regular AUDIO call, and you see something like...

• a hot (whatever sex you're attracted to),
• maybe some ridiculous funny argument,
• a yard sale,
• a dog with two front legs and a cart with wheels for its hind legs,
• the cutest fringed BOOTS EVAR OMG gonna die
• the dopest AirMax 90s ever, son, for real, gotta cop 'em
• a bomb you have to defuse (literal or metaphorical, whatever)

...or anything going on out on the street and you can say, "Hey Buddy, take a look at this..." and move your phone away from your ear, enable video mode, hold your phone up and share a little bit of what's happening, then switch back to audio mode.

THAT would work, be natural, and be considered totally normal within a year. Do it, Apple. Tell AT&T to man-up and jump in. The water's fine.

]]>May 22nd 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
Old people would never be able to figure out the iPhone or any other smartphone.]]>May 22nd 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
Ehm, video conferencing is an UMTS standard feature. Carriers charge for it. Maybe you guys in the US should check the price lists already. In Europe it's about 60 cents per minute. That's why nobody uses it.

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And there in a nutshell is the primary problem with fanboys' reasoning abilities. "If I don't want it, why would anybody else?" ]]>May 22nd 2010 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/This simply isn't true for Japan. I don't know where you pulled your facts from. I would hazard a guess that less than 3.271% of the population use video phones on a regular basis, despite the capabilities being available for many years.

]]>May 22nd 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/My 77 year old mother has had no problems with videocalls on the Nokia N800 over the last 2+ years. ]]>May 22nd 2010 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 23rd 2010 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_share

and

http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/messaging-internet/media-entertainment/attvideoshare.jsp


I cant find much on AT&T Live Video Share in ]]>May 23rd 2010 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/Too right! Video calls WILL have their place ... Along with texting, sending emails, taking pictures, recording video, listening to music, playing games, watching movies, paying bills ... I could go on! It's a nice OPTION. I can't wait!

If it's done right.

Personally I can't wait. ]]>May 23rd 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 23rd 2010 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 23rd 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
Don't worry. Apple won't 'blow' this one. It'll be only available over WiFi. No video calls over 3G for us. AT&T's network wouldn't be able to handle it.

Waitasecond! I see what you did there!]]>May 22nd 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
If you have to resort to the "they blew it" meme in your posts then you blew it.

Oh... wait]]>May 22nd 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 23rd 2010 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 23rd 2010 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
That's what she said.]]>May 22nd 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/It's up to the carrier to decide that. Google gave all the control to the carriers and handset makers. Exactly why you can buy Android phones that cannot access the Android market in favor of carrier run stores. Google has no say in it. ]]>May 22nd 2010 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
kinda tired of my 3gs cant really say im excited for the 'upgrade', then again that sexy evo 4g is mighty quick with a pretty lush screen. i dont see apple making a 'BIG' show unless they make the ipad do calls natively.]]>May 22nd 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
And, Android phones having this capability will be decided by carrier, just like tethering and access to the app marketplace.]]>May 22nd 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/
I think it sounds gd anyways.. Will make iPhone more like.. Business too.. I know it got that email and stuff.. But still.. :s Idk.. I think this is good for ppl who needs to be at a meeting and such, but still isn't able to be physically at the spot. :s But still, I think, as so many other things, it should have been on the iPhone to begin with. But I guess, that's how it is with all os'.. More features as we go..

-Come to think of it.. Isn't business one of the last places the iPhone needs to "conquer"? Here in Denmark, we JUST got one of the major networks to import ONE BlackBerry phone, and now every guy in a tux I see at the street, is using a BlackBerry. ^^ Yay.. Fancy that. :D But.. Yeah.. We havn't really got that many things other than Nokia, HTC, SE and.. Huaweii.. Yawn. Samsung.. Ye ye.. Sure I'd like to see a Palm over here.. :/ Or a Nexus One. ILU. :/

Idk, seems to me like iPhone, here at Denmark is mostly for the "younger" crowd.. Bcos, it isn't really looked at as a gr8 phone for doing "work" stuff on.. I mean.. The calendar isn't really tht gd, and the notes seems a bit sloppy.. Wow.. I really need to do something now. Why am I writing this?]]>May 22nd 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/iphone-video-conferencing-surfaces-in-supposed-test-firmware/May 22nd 2010 6:39PM