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Is Video Chat really that big a deal?

The only time I'd want to use video chat is when I'm talking to a beautiful female (which, admittedly, is most of the time). Other than that I don't want to see your ugly face.
 
Ichinisan said:
My bro and I both have i4's.

I've never looked at his face.
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I don't blame you...I wouldn't want to look at his face either.

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I see the commercials. They're lost on me because I don't chat or text...so it seems like a waste of bandwidth and battery.

When will they make a cell phone that...wait for it...just makes a good, clear phone call?
Every cell phone I've ever owned or used sucked by comparison to a good landline phone.
 
BoomerD said:
Every cell phone I've ever owned or used sucked by comparison to a good landline phone.
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Silly BoomerD, only old people use their phones to actually call people🙄. All of the cool young kids with their iPhones only text. This is why the iPhone can get away with being a completely shitty phone.
 
Technology is a funny thing. Go back two decades ago and the thinking was that video calls would be the dominant form of communicating between people. Totally missed the whole texting/facebook/twitter thing.
 
It's pretty much the next best thing to actually having a conversation. good when distance is a factor (think LDR).
 
So looking in here so far 1 out of 10 would actually use it.

I wonder where or who came up with pushing that for the commercials?
 
As my extended family has some military members in it, Skype video chatting is EXTREMELY popular amongst deployed military.

It allows deployed servicemen & women to see their family. My Sister-in-law's husband is Deployed to Saudi Arabia, and they Skype chat daily. It allows him to see his wife, and his 2 year old daughter.
 
guyver01 said:
As my extended family has some military members in it, Skype video chatting is EXTREMELY popular amongst deployed military.

It allows deployed servicemen & women to see their family. My Sister-in-law's husband is Deployed to Saudi Arabia, and they Skype chat daily. It allows him to see his wife, and his 2 year old daughter.
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That's about the only good use I see for video chatting.
 
Yeah, if I was in a long-distance relationship or in the military or something I'd probably use it all the time.

I have an Epic and my wife has an Evo so we are able to video call each other, but we've only done it a couple times to test it out.
 
HP has invested millions of dollars into a video conferencing technology that displays live 3D personnel on the opposite end of the communication spectrum, using cameras, sensors and very high quality audio systems.

How much does it cost, half a million? But why does it matter to consumers?

Military firms and large corporations that have access to big toys will eventually make it available to consumers in the near future, in some way, shape or form, trickling down to the essentials to what consumers may have use for, or be embedded in new technologies as functionality to improve what we already currently consider mainstream.

As 4G becomes more mainstream, bandwidth will become much less of an issue overtime, allowing phones to have access to much, much more information and have many more features than what a typical user may ever need on a communication device.

Psychology, sociology and business research has become so advanced to the point, where if a marketting campaign was launched to make something hype, it may just sell...
(teen generation brainwashing techniques and skillful ad support from big companies, etc.)

Honestly, do I really give a fvck about video conferencing for personal use(?), no.

If your MBA team had to utilize modern technology to build a case study or connect with other scholars and businesses around the world, you can damn well bet that video technology will be greatly factored in, as to maintain a level of professionalism.
 
I use Skype to:

-Talk to my GF since we're in a LDR at the moment. I like talking to her face to face a lot more than using a phone.
-Talk to my parents who both live in Okinawa, Japan since that's my dad's current duty station.
-Talk to my sisters who are both going to school at VT
 
Seems like the only time you would want to use this is when you were at home...and then you would be better off just using skype over broadband and not using up your asstastically small monthly data allotment on your cellphone.
 
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