Thanks in part to the record 3.2 million iPhones AT&T activated last quarter and continued iPad success, there are now twice as may “integrated devices” on the company’s beleaguered 3G network as there were just a year ago.
Oh, Nick Lee, you clever clever man. You see, Nick here tricked Apple with a very simple iPhone application: Handy Light. On the surface it looked like any other $1.19 torch application. But, secretly, it was a lot more useful.
I just had a video chat over 3G and it was the most amazing thing I’ve experienced all day. There was some lag, voice quality wasn’t perfect and video was sometimes jittery. But I loved every minute of it.
As of yesterday, the Skype 3G app for iPhone had been downloaded close to 5 million times. As it’s now Thursday evening, that figure must have been surpassed by now — a wondrous feat, given it only launched on Sunday. [Reuters]
Unlimited, all-you-can-eat wireless data was a beautiful thing, delivering streams of Pandora, YouTube videos, a million tweets and hundreds of web pages without worry. And now it’s dead.
A front-facing iPhone camera means video calling, but it’s also a sign of something bigger. Combined with other recent leaks, it means that Apple is bringing iChat to the iPhone. Everything about voice calling may be about to change.