http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/ Engadget Comments for Skype Mobile with video support coming to Android Market later this year? 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/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/Maemo is badass, but what about Symbian? I know there is skype for symbian also, but anyone know how good it works there, anybody know?]]>May 28th 2010 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
This pushes me even more to buy an EVO 4G! ]]>May 28th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/

Bout freakin time.]]>May 28th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/And if "Mobile Skype" is the same broken, non-free crap I've seen on other phones then just keep it to yourselves.
Release the equivalent to the desktop version, or nothing.
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I am not sure how it works on the Android devices, but on the N900 it is done from the phonebook directly. Hope they do the same here...]]>May 28th 2010 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/it means exactly that

the thing with video calling is it was never really successful on phones because it is quite impractical to hold your phone in front of your face while on the move an because many carriers here in europe charged insane amounts of money for that feature. this second problem is dealt with by using skype however that doesn't affect the other issue and it also creates new problems in areas with bad reception (because the phone can't switch over to a normal call like it would when using normal umts video calling)]]>May 28th 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
There are two uses for front facing cams. Yes on feature phones you're limited to 3G video calls. Here in Europe they didn't take off usually due to the cost of data in the early days and the carriers insistence to still charge you as if it was a voice call. Pretty much every phone had a front facing camera but no one used them.

By the time the iPhone ushered in free data plans it was too late.

Now we have internet connected phones, like my old N95, that can also run apps. I had Fring and I could use the front cam to make video calls but...I just never did. skype never really put out a decent official app that included it's video calling, but with the new iPhone that will obviously change.

The thing is, once something is on iPhone it'll become popular. Expect video calling to suddenly take off once the Apple crowd get on it.

]]>May 28th 2010 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
Ok... but what I was asking is more how would you receive a video call using say a skype app? I guess you would have to keep the app open in the background. I would rather have an integrated solution so my phone would just ring with incoming video call.

I hate to say it but Apple is probably going to do this integrate video calling in the main dialer this way every iphone user can call each other without having to worry about having the person they are calling having the correct app installed and open. Hopefully Android will do the same in 2.3 ]]>May 28th 2010 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
I'm sure Apple could pull it off. That's pretty much how it works now in Europe, but again, you have to be sure the person you're calling has a compatible phone. In terms of Skype I know Symbian has a "startup" flag that apps can use (I used to use Fring and Tru-Phone and they could start up with the phone and sit in the background) and I know Android does too, Nimbuzz starts up with my phone so I have all my IM accounts available when my phone is on 3G.

I envision the best way for Apple to do it is to have a separate network like the Blackberry does. But it's a pain when a friend says "do you have a BB pin?" and I don't. It'll be an exclusive club. It could mean the fracturing I get with my IM accounts...some friends on GTalk, a couple on MSN, one or two on Yahoo...none on AIM. It's a mess.

Skype has the potential to work on various phones across various platforms as well as PC. ]]>May 28th 2010 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
Yeah I don't really like the idea of all those apps running in the background though. I think the ideal solution for me would be for an incoming video call to somehow ping you over the normal gsm/cdma network and when you click on answer a video calling app launches and you take the call over wifi or 3g.

Anyway I agree that Iphone will bring about a new video calling revolution even if it is pointless and expensive *cough IPad* ]]>May 28th 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/]]>May 28th 2010 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
What you're describing would require full access to the phone that realistically wouldn't come from a third party app but be built into the phone and then we're back to the unpopular video call via the mobile carrier. This is then limited to calls to other video phones rather than calls to and from people on web-cam equipped laptops. ]]>May 28th 2010 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
I have about a dozen friends on skype. 30% of them have webcams too. I think I've probably spent a cumulative hour on the webcam in all that time... and most of it was to show off my room.

People just aren't terribly interested in videocalling. The light levels are never quite right, you feel self conscious and we have a lifetime of familiarity with straighforward voice calls.

When I had a video capable phone on 3UK for 2 years with 50 free video minutes per month, I used it /once/, as proof-of-concept, and never again. I barely knew anyone else with a compatible phone, and found it stilted if they did.

Free skype voice calls are fun though, if the carrier allows it. (Excepting the fact that I buy a plan with sufficient minutes that I don't need free calls, like most people.)]]>May 28th 2010 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
These dudes are never honest in what they say publicly. The real deal only gets discussed behind closed doors. I wouldn't hold my breath.]]>May 28th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
So I guess Skype will be out on iPhone first, then Android after. But with Fring and the EVO 4G, Android has beated Apple to the punch...unless they can convince brainless fools that their version of video calling is sooo amazing, revolutionary, and magical lol.

I hope Apple has bigger surprises up their sleeves besides video calling and potentially music streaming.]]>May 28th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
"But with Fring and the EVO 4G, Android has beated Apple to the punch"

Like I said above, it's not about beating them to the punch...although I'm no fan of the iPhone, I had a device that beat it feature for feature (N95) but it was so infuriatingly unintuitive to use the easiest of tasks were a chore, so you just didn't bother. The thing Apple does is make doing simple things as simple as they should be.

As an example go to http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ and see how far ahead of even the second most popular camera phone the iPhone is...the second most popular is actually another iPhone! It's not got the best camera, it's not got the highest quality camera...but in terms of taking a snap and then uploading it the iPhone made it so easy every photo site is now inundated with iPhone snaps.

Now imagine that same type of adoption for something like video calling.]]>May 28th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
Killer feature.]]>May 28th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGewYnBw_PI]]>May 28th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
Go play with some N900 and see how long does it take. I use it every day, it's virtually indistinguishable from using a normal phone app.]]>May 28th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
While I applaud the N900 for being innovative and versatile, it's just too slow. The N900's OMAP SOC is pretty quick, so the slightly-clunky performance has to be Maemo's fault.]]>May 28th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
Cristy makes Jim re-install Skype.
Jim refuses.
Cristy withholds sex.
Jim installs Skype.
Jim and Cristy video call several times a day now.]]>May 28th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/>>> Skype.

They've had 3-way free video calls long, long before Skype. It's also as smooth as butter.
And yes, ooVoo is releasing an Android mobile app this year as well.]]>May 28th 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/Uh NO, son. No it does not.

ooVoo has always been free for up to 3-way video conferences. For 4-6 way video calls, it costs money.

Hell you don't even have to download a program to use it. You can go to www.oovoo.com and try it out, for free. I've been having butter-smooth 3-way video calls coming from 3 different continents (North America, Europe, Africa) for 10-hrs straight, using their web app. Butter smooth, and ALL FOR FREE.]]>May 28th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
Parents will make their kids install it. Insecure girlfriends/wives and boyfriends/husbands will force each other to use it. Tech geeks (like myself) will drool over it and push family and friends to use it.

As long as it's free or there's a low one-time app purchase cost for video calling, people will use it.]]>May 28th 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/The first thing I would do, once Flash 10.1 gets out of beta, is try out ooVoo's 3-way video call app on their website...]]>May 28th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/May 28th 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/
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