“It also tells us a few more things, too – it suggests that O2’s rather more confident about its data network, if it expects to provide enough bandwidth for its iPhone users to start video conferencing,” Geere reports. “It also poses a question – can Apple resurrect what was once a key feature for smartphones? A few years back, every handset came with a front-facing camera, but video calling never took off.”
“Update: O2 has got in touch with us, and said: ‘The iPhone section of our website states video calling is charged at the same price as voice calls. We can confirm that this was listed in error. We will be amending our website shortly to clarify this and would like to apologise for any confusion caused,'” Geere reports. “That’s interesting – the only denial in there is that video calling will be as cheap as voice calling. We thought it sounded a little generous. There’s no denial there that an iPhone 4, if it exists, will have voice calling.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
june june june, oh still march. 🙁
It’s ok. I still gotta by my iPad. I’ll wait to June for my iPhone upgrade. Well, at least, I would like to but I’ll be in Europe from the middle of JUne. I hope they do it early. I’m due for my first upgrade(those sticky Rogers’ contracts) since I bought mine in August 2 years ago. I can wait. Yeah, right!
“A few years back, every handset came with a front-facing camera, but video calling never took off.”
That’s because it was inconsistent from device to device, hardly worked (when it worked at all), and was never really pushed out in North America. At least if Apple does it, it’ll be done right. You can’t hold a hammer by the wrong end and then claim it doesn’t work.
“There’s no denial there that an iPhone 4, if it exists, will have voice calling.”
I would hope so! I assume he meant video calling…
Any and all reference to video calling have been removed from O2’s iPhone pages.
This is wishful thinking, folks. The section of the page with tariffs was just copy/pasted from a regular “SIM-Only” page, where they list video calls as well. That obviously means that you can make video calls if the phone of your choice supports it. Since the plan is SIM-only, it is the “Bring-Your-Own-Phone” (BYOP) concept, which is practically totally foreign to American mobile users.
I would suggest not getting too excited about this (within the context of iPhone 4).
What handsets had front facing cam? I remember none! All I can say is I CANT WAIT FOR iChat AV!
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There were many, and there still are quite a few. However, none of them ever made it into the US markets, since no carrier in the US supported those front-facing cams.
What is it with all of our carriers here in the good ‘ol US? Anybody have anything good to say about ’em, cause I can’t think of anything, and like my momma said, “if you can’t say anything nice….”? Even their commercials suck.
What I look like, and where I may be are not inducive for am iPhone . Differant beast with am iPad, like my Macs, I do iChat when it is planned
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Just because they said that the prices were listed in error, does not automatically imply that video calling will be available.
He’s grasping at straws on that one.
However, the fact that it was listed at all does give credibility to the rumor.
The fact is, it is still a rumor though, and until it is either confirmed by Apple, or denied, we do not know.
@MacDave
The only thing that I can say is that there are few places on earth that have the twin hurdles of both geographic scale and user mass as carriers must contend with in the U.S. Example: There are more people in California alone than there are in all of Canada. Both ATT and Verizon are attempting to serve 50 states. They are spread thin.
@ Spark,
Great points. I do suppose that our carriers are easy to find fault with, but when you step back, take a deep breath, and consider the scope of what they do actually accomplish…wait, do you hear that? It’s the sound of one hand clapping.
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This is the MDN forums after all. No common sense allowed!
just so you know o2 IRELAND does not support Video calling (along with a dozen other features !