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Iphone 4 Facetime is WiFi only says O2
LOOKING UP NOSTRILS with the Iphone 4 Facetime video calling feature will count towards customers WiFi data allowance and not minutes on O2 contracts, the UK network has revealed.
The shiny Apple gadget is officially being launched in the UK on 24 June but is available for purchase only to the very few due to supply shortages of touchscreens. So pricing information is emerging only slowly.
An O2 spokesman said that Facetime will operate only over WiFi connections because it "is an Apple setting, and you will have to talk to them about any future plans," he added.
It is unknown whether the Skype-like applications will be made available over 3G, because then charges will apply. Skype-to-Skype calling via 3G is free until the end of 2010, subject to operator data charges. After then there will be a small monthly fee, according to O2.
Video calling on mobiles has failed to take off, partly owing to high prices. Vodafone confirmed to The INQUIRER that it will also offer Facetime over WiFi. Three is the last major network to invest significantly in this area. µ
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Check this Implementation out. It's from the DeviceKnit blog:
http://blog.deviceknit.com/post/739345775/facetime-without-wifi
Alert the press ! Call the authorities ! What is HomeLand Security doing ?!
Good Lord ! The Iphone can murder babies and enslave the world ? Why haven't we been told !?!
I call for an immediate INQuiry about these serious allegations. We need to know if the worlds' babies are at risk.
And how exactly the Iphone is going to kill them.
Will it be with radiation, under the guise of Wifi connections gone wrong ? Or will the thing actually climb up the crib and strangle the infant when nobody's looking, to return to its place with the red glow of achievement burning brightly on its forehead ?
I think we should be told.
@erikthered (herring)sorry i could not resist
This site has the best examples of trollers and flamers. I can't resist peeking in to the inq to see how much fun you can have reading the comments from appholes'.
Please continue sending in letters like the one you did here. Maybe we can all attract more of these and then nick can really go overboard.
signed
A CONCERNED CITIZEN
Isn't that exactly what Apple told everyone during the product announcement? Perhaps if folks at T3h Inq paid more attention to these things instead of speculating how the new Apple product will murder sleeping babies while simultaneously enslaving the planet they wouldn't be surprised by this.
Plus, you'd be able to make more intelligent jokes about how "magical" the product is.