On 08/04/2014 01:36 AM Bret Busby wrote:
How many different people do you want to be able to video chat with?
>What's your purpose? Figure out what you want to do, and you probably
>don't need skype at all.
>
Relatives and acquaintances (for me), would be good, and, some people
of whom I have no knowledge. I have immediate family members in a
couple of countries, that I might not even recognise, now, not having
seen them for a while, and, distant relatives (I have been into
genealogical research), in various countries around the world.
For a long time I waited for OpenMoko to integrate a camera into their
phone, but finally gave up and got a Samsung running Android. I use
skype w/ video on it oftentimes to show people around my house (e.g., a
couple Buddhist monks from Bhutan who'd never been outside their own
country). I also used it with a car mechanic friend when I wanted to
show him part of my car's engine I was working on and needed his help
with. I also found skype video handy when talking with a friend in
another language and I didn't know the translation for an object I was
talking about... I just pointed the camera at it.
There are a lot of reasons to have and use video when phoning with
someone, watching each other's faces while talking being, for me, the
least of them.
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