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Just talke to some of i phone buddies. They DO really need a kickstand like EVO.]]>Jul 9th 2010 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
1 question..

Will FaceTime work with the new iPod Mini?

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7996/ipodmini.png

:P]]>Jul 9th 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
Scratch that, The iPod Mini is probably not going to get a camera.]]>Jul 9th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/I'm not such an Apple fan but for some reason everytime I read "iTouch" in the comments I feel an urge to downrank, ]]>Jul 9th 2010 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Most of us kept our unlimited plan.

Maybe Skype should update their app to use the service and it'll relax the strain on Fring.]]>Jul 9th 2010 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/*slow clap*]]>Jul 9th 2010 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 10th 2010 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
Fring needs to make a client for windows and mac. That way people can video chat with people who are on their computers who may not have a mobile device.]]>Jul 10th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
What using the low quality 64k stream that phone companies used and which never really caught on or via Fring which released this capability for S60 devices late last year, shortly before they released it for iPhones.

At first iPhones used Fring over wifi and then 3G in February, of course to make video calls as well as receive them the iPhone needed a front facing camera.

Ah yes history revisionists rewriting and downplaying without understanding.]]>Jul 10th 2010 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 10th 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/

Kickstand or not, it's very unpleasant to watch a "movie" on the 3.5" screen. Evo is a different story.]]>Jul 10th 2010 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 12th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
Qik Video Chatting (evo to evo) is awesome on android! Almost facetime quality!
My freind could tell his dogs what to do (sit, sit pretty, roll over) Over QIK video chat from vegas over wimax! While fring yielded a scared/confused dog]]>Jul 9th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
Other way around. Facetime is an open spec, all Skype needs to do is incorporate it into Skype. ]]>Jul 9th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/plus the program looks ugly as fuck on android, and only slightly better on iphone.]]>Jul 9th 2010 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
Where's the spec?]]>Jul 9th 2010 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/LOL Qik calling is so bad compared to facetime... not even in the same league. Now that iPhones can make video calls over 3G too the game is over]]>Jul 9th 2010 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Are you serious? I have both, have made both calls, Right next to each other even, Facetime isnt much better, and the echo when the volume is at an audible level is stupid.

that + no 3g (and no 4g) + no Cell to computer etc, and im sorry, i like QIK better, and the quality is pretty good, 10x better than fring,

And although the video is a little better on facetime, calling it "another league" is optimistic fanboyism]]>Jul 10th 2010 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 10th 2010 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
If you had two phones right next to each other using speaker phone as used in videocalls, of course you are going to get echo as well as feedback, as the two phones would be picking each other up.

You expect us to believe your "story", right next to each other were they, at the same time?

]]>Jul 10th 2010 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
i dont know if facetime is "open" I highly doubt it. Youll need Qik for iphone, but they dont make it. Apple wont allow addons to their stuff. Maybe you are trying to say the API for the front camera?]]>Jul 10th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
Difficult software? What the heck has been so difficult in going to your contact list and selecting "make video call" instead of "make voice call"? ]]>Jul 10th 2010 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Exactly. That's what annoys me about the current "Apple makes it so much easier!" hype. It doesn't get easier than what was available for years.]]>Jul 10th 2010 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/plus the program looks ugly as fuck on android, and only slightly better on iphone.]]>Jul 9th 2010 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/One of the 5 usernames i have had to creat to get it working was "fringisbad"]]>Jul 9th 2010 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Obsession with things working? I know a slight problem with the iPhone 4 that begs to differ.]]>Jul 9th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
I know the antenna problem etc, Im FAR FROM an apple fanboy my friend, Dont start something that isnt there]]>Jul 9th 2010 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
"gestabo?" In addition to not knowing the spelling, it's clear you also don't know the definition of that word.]]>Jul 9th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/Jul 9th 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/fring-bends-under-the-pressure-of-iphone-video-calling-skype-te/
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