According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

What a shock from this people, http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,6430582.story! I guess Nokia N8x0 does NOT count, which I have made video chat from China to USA many years ago!

bun

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

quoting the article: "the first U.S. phone"

The N8x0 wasn't really a phone, and wasn't really targeted at the U.S. either.

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

what about n900? it is a usa phone and it does video chat?

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

Well first we need to make a distinction.

"Video Chat" uses the internet and you have to have an account with a service like Qik or Google Voice.

"Video Call" is just dial a phone number and get video. (at least that is how I have always used the terms).

The news article was talking about video calling.

Lots of phones can do video chat and some phones can do one-way video calling but I don't know of any wireless phones in the U.S. that can do two-way video calling just by dialing the person's phone number.

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

Moved to General since the subject is topical.

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

While I agree with Flynx summation of "video chat" versus "video call", the article seems to steer clear of the video chat technology of Google Talk, Gizmo Project and Skype - which I tend to associate with laptops, desktops, netbooks, MIDs and internet tablets - and seems to center around (but misusing the term "video chat") video calling between phones... which - if I'm reading it correctly would be great if all parties had the right software and hardware... and network.

But honestly... I thought video chats via cellphones wasn't anything new. Regardless... video Skype is my "must-have" option.

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

Video phone calls have been fairly standard on UMTS phones for the past years. I remember trying video calls on my nokia N80 (not N800) around 2006.

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

We have been using the video calls in Saudi Arabia since 2006. I don't know why the US is late in this field!!

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

I feel that Nokia phoneshave had in-built front-facing cameras since forever and I'm still waiting to receive or make my first video call.

When's this thing gonna take off?

Re: According to LA Times:1st video chat on mobile phone is...not Nokia!!!
 

When they stop charging so high for some voice and moving pictures.

Anyway I sent this e-mail to the author of the article. I think it was courteous and to the point:

Ah my mistake..N810 should have been included with wi-fi. Ah who cares..he won't know the difference.