Amidst the iPhone 4 cancellations and clusterfrack, some good news: FaceTime calls will not eat up your calling minutes, reports the Silicon Valley Insider. Great! Hopefully my order won’t get cancelled so I can see this or myself.
The bad news: The side effect of this is that once FaceTime connects, you lose your voice call and will need to redial if the call is dropped.
Please note: Yes, I realise some pre-orders are indeed shipping as promised! [Business Insider]
matt
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 11:31 AMwow. so let me get this strait, people really thought that video calling would be so crap in the iphone that it would actually require you to be connected to an accesspoint – destroying the whole point of a mobile phone – but then still charge you for a voice call, even though internet through an accesspoint is usually “free” (data usage is negligible).
people honestly thought that would be acceptable?
really?
eldarikus
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 1:22 PM2matt:
the initial understanding was that FaceTime uses wifi to transmit visual data and carrier’s line to transmit voice.
people were obviously wrong… Voice is transmitted over SIP, just as the visual.
Now…. what I don’t understand is WHY wouldn’t iOS allow tethering using WiFi? Android does it, bloody Symbian does it, WM does it…. Why doesn’t iOS4 do it????
Yes, I know… MyFii…. But why would I want to jb my phone just for that one feature (which turns out majority of people keep their phone JB-en just because of MyFii)??? Why not make it an OS feature, like others did?
boc
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM@matt
Yes people were/are really that stupid.
That’s what happens when a mass of people who want to believe in someone/something are given vague tech details and are told it’s amazing and magical. They draw their own (usually wrong) conclusions.
@eldarikus
I read a comment on engadget that raved about how awesome Apple was for being able to split video to data and audio to voice. He said it was revolutionary. I asked for his source but, never got a reply.
I would have thought there would be major sync issues if they split video/audio like that.
There is nothing magical about FaceTime. It’s just the usual Apple sugar-coating of an existing feature but, boy do people love their sugar-coating.
I think tethering is coming in iOS 4 but, the carrier has to allow it. Didn’t we seen some leaked screens of that here a while ago?