Comments on: After New iPhone App Launch, Skype Ready With 2-Way Video Calls on Nokia N900

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By: generationally

generationally — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:52:52 +0000

@denix,

I just need to open Gmail in Firefox on my Mac (which has the GoogleTalk Video plugin enabled) and as soon as I'm logged in to Gmail then the GoogleTalk video call option shows up on the N900 under my own contact info. Also other contacts show the video call option if they are at a video enabled device.

So it seems to work for me at least...

By: Jayel

Jayel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:26:09 +0000

There are actually a lot more than 100,000, those recent figures were actually over a 5 week period not 5 month it just takes web news a while to catch up(if they will at all).

Skype on N900 will be interesting although I have used video calling on the Hutchison 3G network for years with many different phones.

By: denix

denix — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:33:36 +0000

@generationally,

Hmm, interesting. I just checked the Settings in the Contacts app and I do have "Display video calling option" enabled. But I still cannot initiate the video call from N900 to video-enabled Google Talk contact. Do I also need to run a separate client on Windows? As I'm only running it in a browser with Video plugin...

By: generationally

generationally — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:33:52 +0000

You can initiate Google Talk video call from N900. In the contacts application, you need to go to Settings and make sure that the 'Display video calling option' is checked. Then whenever one of your Google contacts is online with a camera enabled device, you get the option to initiate a video call and can initiate a Google Talk video call just fine.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:21:28 +0000

Skype and Nokia have a carrier-agnostic agreement. Skype chooses not to allow the OVI Store in the USA to download it's Symbian client. I wonder if they'll try to make Symbian users pay for 3G skype calls or if it continue to be free.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:44:54 +0000

Interesting -- I will check in and see why they said so. Appreciate your feedback and update.

By: denix

denix — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:34:24 +0000

There is nothing to it – go to http://google.com/talk and install Google Talk Video chat plug-in (available for Windows and Mac). Then you can call someone on N900 and have a two-way video chat. Unfortunately, you can’t initiate Google Talk video call from N900, for some reason…

By: denix

denix — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:14:47 +0000

"Prioritizing Nokia over Android was a mistake for that video feature if you ask me."

Unlike iPhone and Android, where Skype app is a normal 3rd party app, made entirely by Skype company, on N900 Skype is tightly integrated into the Maemo OS and mostly done by Nokia (albeit with some Skype's support)...

Unless you are talking about the Symbian version of Skype, which is a different story...

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:13:16 +0000

Denix is correct, Skype and Google Talk video calling has been available since the release of the 1.2 firmware revision. I was confused when I saw this article online, now I see Skype gave you bad information.