Evo getting FaceTime ...... ?

[dakidobf]

I don't care which "standard" comes out on top as long as they follow FaceTime's call initiation style. It's nice to open up your standard dialer, find the person you want to call, then push 'Video Chat".

Having to fire up Fring or Qik and hope that the other party is online to start a video call is lame. Calling or texting the other person to hop on video chat is just not the way it should be done.

Yes contact list intergration should be whats worked on by google. Having to "schedule" a video chat is as bogus as it gets.

Why aren't we hearing about Google developing an app that is integrated into the OS?

 

[skpd]

Have you tried Qik with the newest Version? 3.72

you can't do EVO-to-PC on QiK right?

 

[mrvirginia]

While Apple has always shown forward thinking in their use of videoconferencing codecs, getting FaceTime on my EVO is the last thing I'd want.

I want my platform-independent, phone-to-desktop videoconferencing abilities restored - I want Skype videochat.

We already have iPhone to Evo interoperability via Fring video, last I heard.

One specific transport is more than enough already and we've already got it in Fring - two if you count Qik (and I really don't).

So, no - if there's any truth to rumor, I pray someone drives a stake through its heart and lets it burn in the daylight.

But wait - let's get yet another closed solution into the mix!!!

Adobe FlashTime is like FaceTime, but for Android Unwired View

And let's just be VERY clear - just because H.264 is an open standard in NO WAY implies that FaceTime is - and just because Apple uses H.264 in NO WAY implies we should start using their xport and their client.

Just because this is a New Feature to the iPhone does not in any way make it a new capability to the world.

Friends don't let friends videochat with closed products that are not available on all devices and all popular OS offerings - mobile or desktop.

i'm with EarlyMon on that. very sad about skype =/

 

[eieio]

you can't do EVO-to-PC on QiK right?

as of right now no

 

[eieio]

Yes contact list intergration should be whats worked on by google. Having to "schedule" a video chat is as bogus as it gets.

Why aren't we hearing about Google developing an app that is integrated into the OS?

Might be in the works.

Google Buys VoIP Experts GIS to Outshine Apple, Skype's Video Conferencing | Fast Company

 

[skpd]

as of right now no

yeah, that's what I thought. so we're out of luck now with the whole Fring/Skype debacle...not that Fring with Skype ever worked properly anyways

sucks

 

[skinnyguy]

if android gets facetime, they better make it usable on 3g/4g as well as wifi.

 

[eieio]

Bambuser.. This has great potential.

Bambuser | Live from your mobile!

 

[EarlyMon]

if android gets facetime, they better make it usable on 3g/4g as well as wifi.

And if my TBird gets wings, they better make them useful on I-40 as well as Central Avenue.

 

[EarlyMon]

Bambuser.. This has great potential.

Bambuser | Live from your mobile!

Yep - if you want "Live video streaming from your mobile phone or webcam."

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I like the guy's music.