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Video Calling to PC Options Fring/Qik/Other

Now that Fring has "banned" Skype (or the other way around), is there any way to leverage the EVO's front facing camera to call a PC (or any desktop environment)? Qik will do one way video to www.qik.com, but in my experience, it's pretty bad and only does one way video...
I can't believe Google hasn't implemented this in Froyo and or Google Talk??? WTF???

I found an app a while back called iMovicha. I tested it out from Evo to computer and it worked. It does need to be installed on both Evo and computer, but so do others such as Skype.

Thx... I'll give it a shot... any other options? I'm seriously wondering why google hasn't implemented this yet...

Yeaa i agree ....google needs to make moves on this.
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Just tried movicha and it doesn't recognize my lenovo x301 integrated camera. So... I'm stuck. I guess I'll try my usb camera to see if it's the integrated camera or the software.
Update: I used my usb camera and it worked ok... not great... and there is no option for speaker on the evo side... so I guess you'd have to plug in a headset. By the time I take all these steps, it's not worth it.
Android needs facetime... or Google Video.

The facetime on the iphone 4 was pretty cool! Thats about it though! This evo is rid!!!
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bkfitz said:
Android needs facetime... or Google Video.
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Does facetime make videochats to computers?

ezkialrage said:
Does facetime make videochats to computers?
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There is a Facetime app for mac os x, but i don't know if it is available for windows pc

The yahoo app can do front facing to computers from all the posts I've read.
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JasonK75 said:
The yahoo app can do front facing to computers from all the posts I've read.
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It does but it's pretty buggy and quality is on the low side.

Facebook App idea...

over the past 4 months there has been some awesome mod/hacks to the vibrant/android device, like android runing on the iphone, angry birds coming from the iphone, ninja fruit, the same, lag fix, gps fix, new Roms etc etc... I was wondering, Facebook App for the iphoneis is the best fb app now, how hard would it be to port this app into the android OS.
I guess this questions is more for all the Vibrant/android's developers.
i know there are two totally different OS, but i think we need a better facebook app for the android.
What do you guys think?

isn't the newest fb app pretty much the same as the iphone one? i mean it's by fb so i imagine they want consitency between platforms...

From what I have heard, the facebook app for android is **** compared to the iphone.
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i use facebook touch and works great for me..

The FB app for android is missing some real common features. Like clicking on a notification takes you to the mobile site instead of the app, wtf? Can't tag photos and no Facebook chat.
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speoples20 said:
no Facebook chat.
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you say that like it's a bad thing...

Missing the ability to chat. I am OK with the rest. No complains. I am loving it but missing that key element.

the layout pretty much looks the same as the iphone version with the exception of chat and that everything isn't incorporated in the app itself...
I also don't like the little photos at the bottom. They seem to just lag up the app.

The android fb app also doesn't have "favorite people" a feature in the apple version that lets you go straight to that particular persons fb page for ex. Your best friend or girlfriend.
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Check it out, its very similar to the iohones fb, Sociable, ill post a link to to dowload it with your permission of ofcourse, 3 votes
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funeralthirst said:
isn't the newest fb app pretty much the same as the iphone one? i mean it's by fb so i imagine they want consitency between platforms...
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no push notification, no tag photo, no chat, slow, and when you open a notification you been redirect to the browser.

so a question to the Developers here, can this be possible?

Post it.
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Check it out, its very similar to the iohones fb, Sociable, ill post a link to to dowload it with your permission of ofcourse, 3 votes
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I think the android face app sucks balls, I have it installed just to see the newests posts. Then use the FB's mobile website to look at pictures because theyload so much faster.
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I've used both for iPhone and Android. The iPhones app is far superior. I use Launcher pros friends widget (awesome) for a quick look then I have to bounce around the FB app and the web to get anything done. This stinks. The iPhone app did it all. I am never going back to Apple, but they got a jump on the good apps and app writers. I have seen a steady improvement since app devs have started to realize that there are great Android Phones now to write too...
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I agree, the FB app I had on my iPhone over a year ago completely destroys the current FB app for Android, its really disappointing, I hate not being able to tag people in pictures I upload from my phone and being redirected to the browser for most of the functions. Lame

iwillkillyou said:
Check it out, its very similar to the iohones fb, Sociable, ill post a link to to dowload it with your permission of ofcourse, 3 votes
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can u post the link.
i thinks this is what is was taking about is 1.99 found it on the market "SOCIABLE"
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/social/facebook-client-sociable_bebn_download.html
i wish this pay app had like trial version...

huasamaya said:
can u post the link.
i thinks this is what is was taking about is 1.99 found it on the market "SOCIABLE"
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/social/facebook-client-sociable_bebn_download.html
i wish this pay app had like trial version...
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You have 24 hours to get a refund if you don't want it anymore

For those who actually want to get on fb chat w/android, check out eBuddy. It's not perfect app, but it works well enough.
Doesn't change the fact that in order to do anything semi-complicated (even looking at friends of friends), it's basically impossible to do it with the fb client.
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[Q] Mytouch 4G Webchat feature?

So I just got the Mytouch 4G (rooted & left Stock) was a previous nexus one owner so I know all about the dev side of things but this is my first phone that allows web/video chat capabililties. Im a bit curious on what everyones thoughts and maybe some suggestions to utilize this feature. As of now im am unware of how Qik rele works and if there are any other major vchat apps out there worth looking into possibly even for the future. None of my friends rele have a vchat phone yet so im wondering how i can utilize that feature.
Thanks for the tips & suggestions!

i'm a big fan of the vid chat myself..i use yahoo messenger vid chat to chat with my gf who is on pc..
i think qik works best for mobile to mobile chat..both party needs to have the ap and a phone which supports vid chat..
be aware some roms do not support the front facing camera (yet). I am using iced glacier and have no problems..

lalab0y said:
i'm a big fan of the vid chat myself..i use yahoo messenger vid chat to chat with my gf who is on pc..
i think qik works best for mobile to mobile chat..both party needs to have the ap and a phone which supports vid chat..
be aware some roms do not support the front facing camera (yet). I am using iced glacier and have no problems..
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Is facetime for iphone an iphone exclusive app or can we get that app to vid chat with iphone peoples?

Hey my fellow former N1 owner. I like to use tango it is free and works well.
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Don't know about a face time app but my wife has a iphone 4 and tango works for us.
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uaguilar said:
Hey my fellow former N1 owner. I like to use tango it is free and works well.
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I'll look into tango =D

FWIW, Skype bought Qik last week. Look for the Qik app to either take off with more features or be rolled into the Skype app.
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Pretty sure facetime is iphone exclusive..but tango is the way to go if u are doing vid chat with iphone
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i typically use Tango, but i'm looking into ooVoo. It seems to be the quickest but for some reason my wife'e phone doesn't like it very much. She is using HTC MySense, and i am using AOSP.

Well, evidence of video chat was found in latest Gtalk app (misc references, icons, etc) so I'm hoping we will see VC capabilites officially supported by Google in the near future.
Skype rolled out VC for iPhone recently, I can't imagine it would take them long to introduce a similar future to Android.
Those are the two apps I'm looking forward to as they seem to be pretty universal across all of the platform, any other ones are just a niche apps to be honest (except for yahoo, but it's not for me)

JagLau said:
FWIW, Skype bought Qik last week. Look for the Qik app to either take off with more features or be rolled into the Skype app.
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Yayy i hope they get a good skype app with vchat i knw most of my friends have that or oovoo lol

I love the front camera but i think us, MyTouch 4G Users, are a little ahead of the game cause no one really has android front facing camera phone. But after all the CES phones drop im positive we would all have someone to video chat

nexus9988 said:
So I just got the Mytouch 4G (rooted & left Stock) was a previous nexus one owner so I know all about the dev side of things but this is my first phone that allows web/video chat capabililties. Im a bit curious on what everyones thoughts and maybe some suggestions to utilize this feature. As of now im am unware of how Qik rele works and if there are any other major vchat apps out there worth looking into possibly even for the future. None of my friends rele have a vchat phone yet so im wondering how i can utilize that feature.
Thanks for the tips & suggestions!
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What the hell is "rele" supposed to mean? That's not a word.

The beta yahoo video chat is pretty awesome too. It has video and voice chat. Audio for both has a hollow digital tone to it but works well enough. The video comes through pretty clear.
Use case: mytouch 4g to nexus one. Voice chat works. Video chat works but video capture is done from the nexus' rear camera. I have to flip the phone around. Haha

App suggestions?

I used to use whatsapp to text with my wife for free when I'm out of the country. But our one year is up and can't really justify paying twice for it for the amount we use it. Is there an alternative to whatsapp that doesn't slaughter battery life? I was going to go with kik messenger but it was causing massive drain in my testing..just running in the background. Also tried IMSY and I think its garbage.
Would love others opinions were also looking to video chat if we can since I now have a ffc. But she will be on the PC. Are skype and tango the best choices?
Wish there was an all in one app that could text/call/video call over wifi with android users as well as pc...does it exist?
Btw I'm looking for something to use on my acer iconia A100 for video chat, I would also like to use some sort of messaging/call app on my DZ, the biggest problem I've seen is most of the apps require u to register with your phone number thus locking the app to just my DZ as my tab is wifi only...no way to register and use the same profile..
Hope this makes sense guys.. thanks for any input
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ptesmoke said:
I used to use whatsapp to text with my wife for free when I'm out of the country. But our one year is up and can't really justify paying twice for it for the amount we use it.
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interesting, i didnt even notice i cant use it any more after a year without paying..
ptesmoke said:
Would love others opinions were also looking to video chat if we can since I now have a ffc. But she will be on the PC. Are skype and tango the best choices?
Wish there was an all in one app that could text/call/video call over wifi with android users as well as pc...does it exist?
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well, next to whatsapp im using IM+ as "all in one app" for texting icq, msn, jabber, facebookchat (skype can be used too if original skype installed)
i dont do video calls but one time when i tried that i had to do that directly within the skype app because IM+ didnt support video..
a quick look in the market for free video-call apps: tango, qik, kakaotalk

Hmmm thanks for the suggestions....the search is on!
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In case someone else is looking for the same apps, i going with tango for voice and video calling (free) and live profile (free) for messaging
Check them out! Cheers!
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any ways to fit emails in the screen with out pinch and zoom?

i use gmail, ive noticed one thing that is missing. the emails dont auto resize so it dont fit my screen. any way to fix that? thank you

Nope, idk why Google hasn't done it yet,that's probably the only feature I miss from my iPhone
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I read somewhere that that was a gsiii thing, because it works fine on my EVO 4g LTE
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Rxpert said:
I read somewhere that that was a gsiii thing, because it works fine on my EVO 4g LTE
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On the Gmail app or the email app from htc?
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I think it's a no brainer...it's on his HTC Email app. Google doesn't offer it (Yet). I use the Samsung Email app on my S3 and I love it. There litterally is no difference other than it's got a black background which is not a big deal. I can zoom in and out and read the whole email with ease. It totally, for me, removes any desire to use the native Gmail app.
If you switch, make sure you turn of notifications in the Gmail app.
As a side note, I'm a purist of sorts. I love my GNex in all it's glory, but needed this S3 Beast. I don't like all the bloatware but their Email app is nice.

can6rxw said:
I think it's a no brainer...it's on his HTC Email app. Google doesn't offer it (Yet). I use the Samsung Email app on my S3 and I love it. There litterally is no difference other than it's got a black background which is not a big deal. I can zoom in and out and read the whole email with ease. It totally, for me, removes any desire to use the native Gmail app.
If you switch, make sure you turn of notifications in the Gmail app.
As a side note, I'm a purist of sorts. I love my GNex in all it's glory, but needed this S3 Beast. I don't like all the bloatware but their Email app is nice.
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I too have foregone gmail app for this stock email just for being able to embed images into the body of an email is awesome and i do it alot.
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I live Google products but it can be infuriating how half ass some of their key products can be at times.