You're absolutely right. 3 launched a video calling service in 2001. It was quite radical in that it worked over 3G (gasp!) And you could call any brand of phone that supported video calls (no, really, I'm not yanking your chain!). Although 3 is a successful business and has the most complete 3G network in the UK, video calling never took off.
On Jun 15, 3:33 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > Just as a quick tangent while I listen to the latest episode. > > The iPhone made a big deal about video calling on the phone making out > as if it hasn't been done before. > I wondered if I was the only person who thought, Didn't the '3' > network in the UK have video enabled phones running over 3G several > years ago? > Video calling turned out not to be all that popular. The iPhone brings > video conferencing limited to Wifi where video calling was available > on 3G several > years ago in the UK at least. I didn't think the implication that the > iPhone 4 was the first video conferencing phone was justified. > > I also kind of though about while watching the videos of people using > video conferencing on the iPhone for nice happy wholesome purposes > and > though of Microsoft NetMeeting and how it seemed that technology ended > up popular for shall we say other less wholesome things than video > meetings. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
