iPhone gets 2-way video calls to all leading mobile platforms on 3G

[Duvi]

http://www.fring.com/blog/?p=2276

 

[Rene Ritchie]

Tried it out with Phil Nickinson and Richard Lai, worked great though iPhone 4 seems to have a bug in that speakerphone won't come on when you're talking with Android :-/

 

[Alli]

Maybe it's not a bug. Maybe it's a manners filter.

 

[Duvi]

LOL

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[Duvi]

Were you on 3G, WiFi or both? Someone I
know said it was pretty choppy on 3G, but
then again, it could be AT&T in their area.

 

[Alli]

Experimented with this tonight. iPhone 4 to iPhone 4, both on WiFi. Took 3 tries to get a solid connection. First time my video went through, his didn't...spontaneous disconnect. Second time nothing happened at all. Third time was the charm, great video...but no audio whatsoever. Tried with and without headset.

So then we tried plain ole FaceTime (plain ole? LOL!) and it worked brilliantly.

 

[Mustang5Oh]

I got it to work calling my wife on skype (she was on her laptop) and it all worked flawlessly. it was barely delayed audio/video but looked and sounded great!

 

[BradM73]

I don't even see any Skype options except in the Dialer where it says "Skype Out". Under add-ons, I don't see Skype or SKP add-ons, so how did you get video calling to a PC to work?

 

[MAGNUS]

I may be asking for a bit much, but I'm curious, will this allow you to video chat with someone on say yahoo/aim using a web-cam?

 

[Alli]

Haven't tried it yet, but it should.

 

[jeffnucci]

I got it to work calling my wife on skype (she was on her laptop) and it all worked flawlessly. it was barely delayed audio/video but looked and sounded great!

How did you get this to work? I can't even get Skype to show up as an option to sign into on my iPhone 4. So frustrated.

 

[Alli]

Do you have a Fring account already, Jeffnucci? From your Fring account, you just go to More and then Add-ons. From here you'll see the other services you can use with Fring including skype, MSN, Yahoo, etc.

 

[Mustang5Oh]

How did you get this to work? I can't even get Skype to show up as an option to sign into on my iPhone 4. So frustrated.

They removed Skype yesterday so I deleted the useless app.

 

[Alli]

I still show Skype when I open Fring.

 

[Fausty82]

At one point they removed/blocked access to Skype because that connection was getting hammered... it was not permanently removed, but temporarily blocked.

 

[noaim]

when i try and register an account it tells me that the user id is already taken no matter what I put in for the user id I even tried my own name and it didnt accept it