With my loved ones long away from me, I have missed the ability to use my iPhone’s FaceTime over 3G a few times. Even if the quality would have been bad. Well, it seems that Apple may be testing it or getting ready for it, according to this screenshot.
No, it’s not an Onion article. A Washington DC plastic surgeon is being hit with patients rendered so self-conscious by their video chatting visages that they’re asking for phone-specific facelifts. Technology is great except when it’s so, so awful.
Cameras that look back at us are becoming commonplace – and that’s a good thing! FaceTime is a lot of fun! Except if it’s glitchily taking secret pictures of us without us knowing, as some iPhone users are claiming.
The freshest OS X update is out and ready for your computer to swallow up. What’s it bring? Less-buggy Back to My Mac, Mac App Store fixes, FaceTime performance tweaks and improved graphics stability. Start yer Software Update engines.
New MacBook Pros are here, with spiffy HD cameras popped into their faces. Neat! HD video chat sounds fun. Less fun? The fact that Apple’s FaceTime app – you know, the program for the chat protocol they’re trying to make ubiquitous – is no longer free.
Oh hay! While digging around in the recently released iOS 4.3 Beta 2, MacRumors found three app icons that seem to confirm the presence of at least a forward-facing camera in the next iPad: FaceTime, Camera and PhotoBooth.
We’ve compared a few of the most popular video chat programs on the desktop before, but now that Skype can make video calls on iOS, we took a look at both Skype and FaceTime to see how they measure up.
Your iPhone 3GS doesn’t have its dandy younger brother’s front-facing camera, but if it’s jailbroken, it can still get in on FaceTime action. Sort of. A new app will let you at least watch (and speak to) someone else’s face.
Sure, Skype and Facetime are changing how we communicate, but is this new technology really all that revolutionary? This week’s excerpt looks at a “futuristic” idea that has been around much longer than you’d think.
