The iPhone finally does video calling... almost.
Kiblams
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OK this is close to trolling but bear with me; the new iPhone 4 advert shows their "facetime" feature which when you first see it looks like Apple have finally added a feature my 4 year old WM6 phone had (video calling)
Great you might think, until you look to the bottom of the screen and notice that instead of using the 3G network (like my old phone used to) meaning video calls can be made anywhere with half decent signal, Facetime needs a Wi-fi connection!
Apologies for this obvious Apple hate, but I really struggle to understand why people pay above the odds for this crap. :x
Great you might think, until you look to the bottom of the screen and notice that instead of using the 3G network (like my old phone used to) meaning video calls can be made anywhere with half decent signal, Facetime needs a Wi-fi connection!
Apologies for this obvious Apple hate, but I really struggle to understand why people pay above the odds for this crap. :x
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yes you are a troll
and face time is brilliant...firstly it actually works..my old phones had video calling and it was shit. facetime is seamless
secondly its free!
funny how the majority of haters dont even have an iphone!
yes you pay above the odds, but its not crap...its actually a great product and like other great products its not perfectCrafted in Italy apparantly0 -
Cause it all works nicely, something wm can never have claimed to have done, regardless of it being 'technically superior'.0
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Have we gone back in time again?!
The iPhone4 only does "facetime" to other iPhone 4's... which is sh!t... and tbh... video calling on a mobile is sh!t anyways.... it never took off the 1st time 3 mobile started putting it out.0 -
Kiblams wrote:Apologies for this obvious Apple hate, but I really struggle to understand why people pay above the odds for this crap. :x
Why people like you go out of you way to get so wound up over something that has so very little to do with their day to day life, except to make people like me laugh out loud !
I bet you get really shouty when someone in a flash car passes you too 0 -
i also hate when people can afford better things than me.0
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sheepsteeth wrote:i also hate when people can afford better things than me.
Me too. I hate everyone.I don't do smileys.
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sheepsteeth wrote:i also hate when people can afford better things than me.
You are so poor0 -
*AL* wrote:Kiblams wrote:Apologies for this obvious Apple hate, but I really struggle to understand why people pay above the odds for this crap. :x
Why people like you go out of you way to get so wound up over something that has so very little to do with their day to day life, except to make people like me laugh out loud !
I bet you get really shouty when someone in a flash car passes you too
It just makes me angry to think of people being ripped off, cars don't bother me so much as that's not one of my interests.
I promise to contain myself in the future.0 -
Why people don't buy stuff that doesn't work will obviously remain one of life's eternal mysteries.acidstrato wrote:funny how the majority of haters dont even have an iphone!0 -
eltonioni
Vaild point.
I didn't buy an Iphone, you know why? Because I tried it out, and I tried a few other phones at the same time at store. I liked apple, but had other phones that do 2x as many things and cost half as much as the Iphone. Your paying for brand there guys, not quality. Remember that.0 -
but if someone wants the iphone, regardless of the other options i dont see the problem.
of the other features which are supposedly better on other phones and platforms how many do you reckon you will actually use. i only use the capacity to make calls, send mesages and check my emails.
all phones do this now so in reality it comes down to which is easiest to use and best to look at.
iphones look good, work well and do all of the things most non geek phone bore technofashionistas want and the apps which are available are a gajillian miles better than any of the collections available for any other fone, plus the app store is easy and quick to use.
as it happens i use blackberry as i think they are good looking, easy to use and do the 3 things i want a phone to do very well, better than any other one i have tried.
i wish more people could afford iphones then i would have to see less bleating on about it from poor people.0 -
eltonioni
Whoa there pickle! no one said that they didn't work, in fact apple products work very well at what they are designed for. My initial problem with Apple as with brand such as Sony is their insistance on unstandardised tech (sockets etc), so no upgrading/expanding/getting cheap alternatives etc.
I think what annoyed me the most about the advert was that the one side fo the video call was taking place in a changing room, and I'm not really up on my amateur/5-a-side football changing rooms, but do they have Wi-fi?
Thus this could be deemed as misleading (unless you read the blurb at the bottom of the screen telling you Wi-fi is needed)0 -
Kiblams wrote:eltonioni
Whoa there pickle! no one said that they didn't work, in fact apple products work very well at what they are designed for. My initial problem with Apple as with brand such as Sony is their insistance on unstandardised tech (sockets etc), so no upgrading/expanding/getting cheap alternatives etc.
I think what annoyed me the most about the advert was that the one side fo the video call was taking place in a changing room, and I'm not really up on my amateur/5-a-side football changing rooms, but do they have Wi-fi?
Thus this could be deemed as misleading (unless you read the blurb at the bottom of the screen telling you Wi-fi is needed)
They could have a Mi-Fi mobile router or something with them. Just sayin' ...0 -
The Northern Monkey wrote:Have we gone back in time again?!
The iPhone4 only does "facetime" to other iPhone 4's... which is sh!t... and tbh... video calling on a mobile is sh!t anyways.... it never took off the 1st time 3 mobile started putting it out.
nope, it can facetime with the new iPod Touch too.
but still, any Apple products are just over-price"It is not impossible, its just improbable"
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chedabob wrote:They could have a Mi-Fi mobile router or something with them. Just sayin' ...
I guess, or second iPhone running as a wireless router! 0 -
Kiblams wrote:eltonioni
I think what annoyed me the most about the advert was that the one side fo the video call was taking place in a changing room, and I'm not really up on my amateur/5-a-side football changing rooms, but do they have Wi-fi?
Thus this could be deemed as misleading (unless you read the blurb at the bottom of the screen telling you Wi-fi is needed)
If you've ever ventured into the more populated regions of our country you'd find wifi is rather common.0 -
360 wrote:Kiblams wrote:eltonioni
I think what annoyed me the most about the advert was that the one side fo the video call was taking place in a changing room, and I'm not really up on my amateur/5-a-side football changing rooms, but do they have Wi-fi?
Thus this could be deemed as misleading (unless you read the blurb at the bottom of the screen telling you Wi-fi is needed)
If you've ever ventured into the more populated regions of our country you'd find wifi is rather common.
"Location: Whistler/Morzine/Edinburgh/NZ" Which country?
Also, WiFi is in hotels and cafes, but I've never seen it in a local park's changing rooms!0 -
sheepsteeth wrote:bails87 wrote:
Also, WiFi is in hotels and cafes, but I've never seen it in a local park's changing rooms!
where you hang out a lot?
Parks have changing rooms?
Certainly my local gym, any hotel gym i've been to, my local football ground, the 5-aside pitch opposite my flat all have access to wifi.
While I think the advertising is a little sneaky, the fact is wifi is widely available on a regular basis for the majority of the population.0 -
Look face facts its shit, Skype is coming to windows phones, and can be sorted for android.. which is a free on-lind video calling so every other phone under the sun will be doing or ca do netwrok video so its shite.
but again marketed well.
Big pile off pooo!0 -
Thewaylander wrote:Look face facts its shoot, Skype is coming to windows phones, and can be sorted for android.. which is a free on-lind video calling so every other phone under the sun will be doing or ca do netwrok video so its shite.
but again marketed well.
Big pile off pooo!
Skype said they'd support Facetime.0 -
So the arguament is that you pay for the Wi-fi in public places to do something that the iPhone should be able to do for free with your existing data-plan?
What I want to see is if you can indeed use a second iPhone set up as a wireless router to connect the iPhone to in order to make a Fail time call.
(yeah I just made up 'Fail time', respect my m4d skillzorz! 8) )0 -
360 wrote:sheepsteeth wrote:bails87 wrote:
Also, WiFi is in hotels and cafes, but I've never seen it in a local park's changing rooms!
where you hang out a lot?
Parks have changing rooms?
He is from Solihull, parks there also have restaurants with butlers serving thinly sliced swan with foie gras to people called Tarquin, cramming copious caviar filled vol au vents into their mouths while a lackey called Paterson collects dribbles from their chin in a silk handkerchief before it lands in their goblets of veuve cliquot. They then embark on a panda hunt from the comfort of their sedan chair whilst betting money on the results of midget races.
Thats Solihull for you0 -
Kiblams wrote:So the arguament is that you pay for the Wi-fi in public places to do something that the iPhone should be able to do for free with your existing data-plan?
What I want to see is if you can indeed use a second iPhone set up as a wireless router to connect the iPhone to in order to make a Fail time call.
(yeah I just made up 'Fail time', respect my m4d skillzorz! 8) )
Not without jailbreaking.
Who said anything about paying for Wi-Fi though? BT Openzone and The Cloud access points are free for O2 users.0 -
gazderry wrote:360 wrote:sheepsteeth wrote:bails87 wrote:
Also, WiFi is in hotels and cafes, but I've never seen it in a local park's changing rooms!
where you hang out a lot?
Parks have changing rooms?
He is from Solihull, parks there also have restaurants with butlers serving thinly sliced swan with foie gras to people called Tarquin, cramming copious caviar filled vol au vents into their mouths while a lackey called Paterson collects dribbles from their chin in a silk handkerchief before it lands in their goblets of veuve cliquot. They then embark on a panda hunt from the comfort of their sedan chair whilst betting money on the results of midget races.
Thats Solihull for you
Actually, we've just got a pile of breeze blocks. It used to be a dugout!0 -
sheepsteeth wrote:bails87 wrote:
Also, WiFi is in hotels and cafes, but I've never seen it in a local park's changing rooms!
where you hang out a lot?
Of course, that's where I met your dad!0 -
skype is already on 3mobile. they also had a skype specific phone. I had it. Skype was crap on the phone... i'd rather jsut use a free txt.Thewaylander wrote:Look face facts its shoot, Skype is coming to windows phones, and can be sorted for android.. which is a free on-lind video calling so every other phone under the sun will be doing or ca do netwrok video so its shite.
but again marketed well.
Big pile off pooo!0
