Apple’s FaceTime feature would have been awesome if everybody you knew—nay, everyone in the world—owned an iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4G, so you could video-call anyone. The real world isn’t made up of people walking around with new iPhones and iPods though, but here’s the next best thing: an app called Movicha (or Mobile Video Chat) that’ll let you do “FaceTime”-like video calls from your iPhone 4 to anyone else with a camera-packing Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Android-based phone or Windows or OS X-powered desktop.
Adobe just released a new demo video that shows a peer-to-peer video calling app called FlashTime. Sound familiar? Of course it does, since Apple’s FaceTime feature is probably as good a reason as any to dump your 3GS for the new iPhone 4. This one runs on Android though, since Apple’s iDevices won’t run Adobe’s Flash platform and we don’t expect that arrangement to change anytime soon.
Apple just released four new iPhone 4 ads that highlight its FaceTime feature. Not necessarily as awesome or as “hip” as you’d normally expect (no rock and roll backdrops on these ads) from Apple, but they did manage to pull out the “aww” from awesome. So yeah, FaceTime’s pretty cool, in case you haven’t checked it out yet. Even if the ads showed that they’re holding it wrong. Zing! (Sorry, we couldn’t help it.) No big deal in this case though, since FaceTime won’t need a network signal (it uses a Wi-fi connection), there’s no danger of dropped calls no matter how you hold it.
Three more videos after the break.
