Uses for front facing camera

[Big D]

That's just the begining. There is an immense amount of useless crap on the D3.

 

[jaycemiskel]

Wait I'm confused. Why would the Droid 3 come with skype preinstalled and a front facing camera and they don't work? I'm not planning on using it for anything at all but just that wow factor of "really verizon? WTF are you doing putting useless crap on my phone!"

The same reason why the Thunderbolt was promised to come with Skype video calling and didn't. Skype is dragging their feet.

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[The_Rick_14]

Wait I'm confused. Why would the Droid 3 come with skype preinstalled and a front facing camera and they don't work? I'm not planning on using it for anything at all but just that wow factor of "really verizon? WTF are you doing putting useless crap on my phone!"

I like to think Skype will eventually update to support the Droid3. If not done in a timely manner, then I agree with the WTF sentiment.

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[Big D]

I would expect Google to get that going before skype does.

 

[mexizag]

I for one plan on using it to call home and speak with the wife and kids, as mentioned earlier, using a phone will be a lot easier than sitting at the computer. I travel quite a bit for work and hope that it works well.

 

[Tepes]

So there has been some previous speculation that the reason we don't have ffc capability with GTalk is because Verizon is trying to figure out how to charge us more. This article may prove the speculation right.

Verizon Wants 3G Facetime to Only Work With Tiered Data Plans

This article pertains to Facetime for IPhone but probably is the same reason that we didn't get our GTalk FFC functions right out the gate:icon_evil:. The long and the short of it is that it looks like Verizon doesn't want unlimited data users bogging down the system by constantly using Facetime (or GTalk, Skype, etc.) and would rather limit that to tierd users. Honestly, does Verizon think that if we had this capability we would just use video chat all the time instead of making calls? I think it would be a very small percentage of users that would constantly use these programs. It sort of like the folks that over use their tethering to do things like run video game systems... yes there are some who do, but the majority of us do nothing more than browse the net and stream music over data.
So come on Verizon, let us have our full functions and then see if we are really killing your system with it.
Sorry for hijacking this thread. If someone feels like there is a better place for me to post this, let me know and I'll move it over there.:icon_ banana:

 

[nikecar]

So there has been some previous speculation that the reason we don't have ffc capability with GTalk is because Verizon is trying to figure out how to charge us more. This article may prove the speculation right.

Verizon Wants 3G Facetime to Only Work With Tiered Data Plans

This article pertains to Facetime for IPhone but probably is the same reason that we didn't get our GTalk FFC functions right out the gate:icon_evil:. The long and the short of it is that it looks like Verizon doesn't want unlimited data users bogging down the system by constantly using Facetime (or GTalk, Skype, etc.) and would rather limit that to tierd users. Honestly, does Verizon think that if we had this capability we would just use video chat all the time instead of making calls? I think it would be a very small percentage of users that would constantly use these programs. It sort of like the folks that over use their tethering to do things like run video game systems... yes there are some who do, but the majority of us do nothing more than browse the net and stream music over data.
So come on Verizon, let us have our full functions and then see if we are really killing your system with it.
Sorry for hijacking this thread. If someone feels like there is a better place for me to post this, let me know and I'll move it over there.:icon_ banana:

"This could also just be a ploy by Verizon to get people to move away from their unlimited plans when its time to upgrade their phones"

Sorry, but I'd rather use Tango, or Fringe then and stay with unlimited.

As if this would make folks flock to tiered data!! What buffoons.