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Details of Android 3.0, SIP, Video Chat

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-are-the-robots dept.

dkd903 was one of several folks to note that a bunch of details about Google's Android 3.0 are beginning to leak out. The platform is codenamed Gingerbread; it includes video chat to compete with the iPhone, and a graphical overhaul to try to make it look a bit better compared to its rivals.

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  1. Re:Open System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everyone who was smart enough to get a Nexus One rather than locked down Motorola garbage.

  2. Re:Video chat to compete with the iPhone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about video chat that works with the iPhone as well?

    I hope so too, but I fear that there's a penis size contest about to begin here. :-(

    I'm afraid Google would feel that following the FaceTime standard would risk giving away users to Apple.

    How the fuck is FaceTime a standard? It was first mentioned on June 7, 2010. I've been using Skype to video chat on my N900 for about a year. And people in Europe have been video chatting using some other Nokia thingamajig for a year or two before that. May have been using Gizmo or something.

    Really. Apple didn't do anything impressive with FaceTime. Just use the Google Voice or Skype apps to video chat. They've been around long enough to be mentioned as a standard without people laughing in your face.