Steve Ballmer did not announce much about upcoming Windows Phone 7 updates at CES this year, except for demoing cut-copy-paste. However, according to Neowin.net, a key Windows Phone 7 employee has revealed some information to them on where the platform was heading. One of the features that were discussed was that Microsoft was working on a FaceTime competitor for Windows Phone 7.
Now that Skype for iPhone has support for video calling, Lifehacker has gone on to compare the two of the most popular video calling options available for iPhone users, FaceTime and Skype, to see which one has better audio and visual quality.
It looks like Skype is soon going to bring video calling to iPhone and iPod touch. In a help document (pulled now) published on the official Skype site, details were posted about making video calling from Skype for iPhone app to the Skype clients running on other platforms such as Windows and Mac.
Apple today started airing a new commercial, promoting iPhone 4’s FaceTime feature once again. The commercial which is titled “Under The Covers” is all about Christmas which shows a boy and his mom having a FaceTime video call with Santa Claus! Video after the break.
The folks who brought us FaceTime on unsupported iPhone 4s in countries like the one in the Middle East are now hard at work in bringing FaceTime on jailbroken iPhone 3GS !
We have already covered a detailed guide on how to activate FaceTime on iPhone 4 in unsupported countries like the one in the Middle East region with FaceTime Hacktivator. If that tweak didn’t work for you, you can give “MiddleWhat” a try which is now available for free for jailbroken iPhones. The official description of the app is as follows.
Yahoo Messenger for iOS has been updated to version 2.0.1 which brings video calling support for iPod touch 4G. For some odd reason, this feature was previously limited to iPhone 4 users only.
I have just found this very useful guide and thought I should share it with you all. As the title suggests, you can now use FaceTime as a Surveillance System to monitor your home remotely whenever you are away from almost anywhere in the world.
Yahoo Messenger app for iPhone received a significant update today which enables video and voice calling from the iPhone client to virtually any Yahoo Messenger account in the world. You can now make iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 video calls, as well as iPhone 4 to PC / Mac and vice versa.
Make FaceTime-like Video Calls from iPhone 4 to Android, Symbian, Windows 7, Mac OS X and Vice Versa
Remember when we posted a rumor that FaceTime would soon be coming to OS X and Windows? Our wishes have been answered in a mega way, sort of.
