f1_fan

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... in my judgement.

Just spoken to my colleague in Australia via Facetime..... fantastic!!!!

Didn't actually think it would work, but it did and picture was crystal clear.

Very cool!

Jaybird-UK

I tend to find the only people critical of apple products don't actually own them!

Video chat is nothing new but FaceTime just implements it in a fuss free perfect way!

Trout

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What, another Apple product that just works without requiring a PhD in Computer Science shock!!

Camoscooby

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I love my Iphone - I would marry it if it wasn't a violation of God's Law

JackClark

I'm very impressed with Apple TV right now, once again it does what it's supposed to and does it with incredible ease. Some might say that they have a box that plays every format known to Pirates hence theirs is better, but I know that inside that black box is the heart of an iPhone 4 and all that potential, Apps on TV anyone?

My iPhone 4 money just got blown on a new Macbook, thanks Mr D. Addict. Luckily my 3GS still impresses me every day - seen Word Lens? - so I don't feel too left out.

Ant

I use facetime to see my little daughter on the MacBook at home, best thing about jailbreaking a iPhone FaceTime over 3G

JackClark

Skype now offer video calling over 3G, not tried it yet as I'm on PAYG.

Ant

Doesn't run in the background afaik. Using facetime beta on osx the app pops up when I'm trying to call

f1_fan

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That works well actually Jack as tried that too as am a huge fan of Skype, but as someone above said Facetime is just so fuss free. Seriously impressed.

Trout

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Word Lens is genius - good heads up!

JackClark

It's not perfect yet, but out here in Spain it's stopped me ordering tripe for dinner, which is nice.

Ant

Just downloaded it too, looks impressive hope they work on it and add german.

boxst

It runs in the background on a PC or Mac. On the iPhone Skype is very good and runs in the background (on Os4/3GS or higher) BUT it just eats battery life. One of the great uses for it is if you want to run out of battery quickly so you can recharge the phone from 0%.

Steve

JackClark

Skype seems temperamental on battery eating, some days it chews threw it in an hour, some days I don't notice it's sitting there until someone calls. I try to keep it running all the time as my UK mobile number redirects to my Skype-in number which rings here in Spain, works very well even shows who's calling but as you say can eat the battery.

stevebt

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The new ipod touch does facetime and you get all the app store so if you don't like the phone qualities of the iphone you can just buy a phone you like

dpb

Girlfrind cooked tripe over xmas as a special treat ..

JackClark

For the dog?

dpb

Hardly

mart360

You can see it now in appletowers

Exec 1 "Hmm, 0.000001 percentage point down on our ratings this month, what can we do to make us big again! ...

Employee, Come up with a new must have app?

Exec 1 - Great, but what.........

Employee - italk?

Exec 1 - italk whats that...

Employee - "you use the phone to make calls to other people, talk to them infact, its not new, been around for about 20 years, so it could have a makeover

Exec 1 - italk not punchy enough not "new" ....hmmmm "Talktime"!!! yes Talktime, the new must have app of 2011 .. i can see it see it now..... how much can we make from it?

Employee - We can restrict it, new os update, limited costs / charging scale, make it not compatible with older os's, unlimited application really,

Exec 1 - Book the conference hall, prepare some press packs, a few well timed snippets of info, "revolutionary new app " "press buttons"..... talk to friends & family ..Talktime i can see it see it now.....



Mart

JackClark

Yawn.

Mitchy260

Steve, my niece has just got a new ipod touch and asked me how the factime worked on it.

I said I'd look into it but havent bothered so far.

I have an IP4, but how would I facetime her? She doesnt have a phone number as its just an ipod.

Any help would be appreciated before i go and trawl google for an answer

JackClark

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/art...ting-problems/

dpb

Nice - who needs to talk anyway

Ant

You can tell FaceTime use email instead of phone number. Your daughter will need to add your email you use on your iPhone in her contacts then click on the contact then they'll be a facetime option

Geezer

I have iPod Touch 4g, but, it stores the original password you used to verify your apple ID for Facetime. So, if you ever change your password on your Apple ID and need to re-verify Facetime on your touch, it will never work again for that id.

That's pretty poor, I had to set up a new Apple ID just for Facetime (the alternative was to do a factory reset on it it so it was like new and then re-downlaod all the apps. You cannot do a restore as this restores the old password, doh!.

Before the fanboys jump in and say I don't know what I am doing, this was confirmed by Apple Support, so I had to pay for the privelege on their support line to be told that their product has a basic fault in it, which they seem to have no intention of fixing.

That said, I do think it's a great device, but Apple fail in so many ways, they really are no better then MS at all.

Don't even get me started on iTunes.........

Geezer

Ant

You don't know what you're doing!

Geezer

SwissTony

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It is quite cool when it works just so well. Spoke to a very good mate of mine a while back who lives in Moscow. He had it on facetime in the office, then walked out of his building and then had a chat with him whilst he was outside his office, very clear and brilliant sound. Didnt drop once and he even showed me around the streets of moscow where he worked (wifi permitting )

kbsub

Love my iPhone 4 , Had it a few months now and it still keeps amazing me on what it can do , Call the daughter in the UK all the time on Facetime and the PQ is just amazing , I walk around the house and garden showing her what proper snow looks like
Daughter number 2 got a Mac-book for Christmas and she's equally impressed with how it just does things so easily and and without any fuss .

f1_fan

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And just when I am prepared to give it a chance the iPhone 4 fails at a primary hurdle. The alarm didn't work this morning, turns out no one's did - a rather large bug in the OS apparently. No fix issued so far but putting the alarm on repeat fixes it.