IT Support | Video Chat Over 3G, Thanks to Yahoo?
Posted by The Blogging Desk on Tue, Oct 12, 2010
Yahoo via iTunes:
Connect with your IM friends using video and voice with the newest Yahoo! Messenger app for your iPhone. Make free voice and video calls to your Messenger friends, low cost calls to land line or mobile phones, video calls—plus get new features like multitasking, instant notifications and free SMS.
Let's be honest, who knew Yahoo was still a thing in 2010?
Aside from presumed posthumous app releases, Yahoo has really stepped it up here. Skype hasn't even added in video calling over Wi-Fi, let alone 3G. Of course, on top of needing friends, you'd also need those friends to have the Yahoo Messenger app. Friends are a tough thing to come by. I'm writing this from the inside of a cheezy poofs bag. Friends forever, bag!
I have only use the FaceTime app a few times, once with my wife from the first floor while she was in my office. I think we'll be using it more once my son bursts onto the scene. I'm the sentimental type, ok?
Outside of personal use, I can see video calling really taking off in the enterprise scene. Video meetings can be a bit more personable when you can't be on-site, and if you have a WiFi connection there, even better. As a top-notch IT Support company serving the Philadelphia area, we'd be ready to support some that kind of slick forward thinking. One would think Cisco would come out with an iOS video-calling app. Though, I would think that would work a bit better when the next iPad adds a front facing camera. That's just assumed, right?
I need more cheezy-poofs.
