Originally Posted by Alcdrew:
“They may be popular but I bet more people have 3g phones with video calling feature that can call any other phone not just the same make and also from any where not just when both parties have wifi connection.”
Take for example Fring, a multi platform app on the iPhone & Android phones.
Due to the nature of the compression it uses and the badly written app, it crashes and quality is rubbish over 3G and even lags over Wi-Fi.
That's why Apple have lauched FaceTime as an open framework - so
any manufacturer can implement it in their phones, but will seek to guarantee a decent call quality, rather than having phones supporting all different manners of codecs.
They also would like it to work over 3G, but that's down to the network operators because of the vastly improved quality, the bitrate is marginally higher and the operators don't want their networks overloading.