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Along the same lines, I wish they would integrate the video chat that they have in Gmail. I have a camera on the front of my phone that I have no use for becaus
by foob 15y ago
Along the same lines, I wish they would integrate the video chat that they have in Gmail. I have a camera on the front of my phone that I have no use for because the only thing that anybody I know uses for video chatting is Gchat. I wonder how explicit the pressure from the carriers is to leave out this functionality.
- abraham 15y agoThis is available in Android 2.3.4+
- darklajid 15y agoNo, it's not. I wish it would be. It's available on 2.3.4 for a selected number of devices (for all I know the library supporting this feature is chipset specific). I've got very neat phone (LG Optimus 2x, T-Online G2x in the states) that is blazingly fast, has a front facing camera - but cannot use this, because it's a tegra2 based phone. Sad face here, Skype on Android is about the worst piece of crap, ever (ignoring my general dislike for Skype, it is so much worse), so no easy 3.000km+ video calls with my wife on my mobile.
- abraham 15y agoIt looks like the LG Optimus 2x is still on Android 2.2 so my statement still stands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Optimus_2X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Optimus_2X
- darklajid 15y agoErr.. No. Your statement was 'works on 2.3.4'. Whatever Wikipedia claims, that's exactly what I run on my device. So my statement still stands: 2.3.4 does support audio/video calls, but only _for selected hardware_. If LG magically brings out a stock firmware with 2.3.4 tomorrow (and if I'd care enough to want it), they'd need to patch GTalk or rather press Google into supporting my type of handset - or they would have no audio/video support.