{"id":9055,"date":"2010-12-30T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/skype_video_for_iphone_a_2011_killer_app.html"},"modified":"2010-12-30T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T09:57:13","slug":"skype-video-for-iphone-a-2011-killer-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/skype-video-for-iphone-a-2011-killer-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype Video For iPhone a 2011 Killer App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just did a brief test of Skype video calling on the iPhone &#8211; it works on the iPad as well. TMC&#8217;s Tom Keating and I tried calling over WiFi and AT&amp;T 3G. WiFi worked amazingly well and the first 3G call I tried just hung.<\/p>\n<p>My second attempt to call Tom&#8217;s iPhone 3GS with my iPhone 4 went through and the quality seemed slightly worse than WiFi but still quite good. During the demo I received two non-Skype 3G calls which placed the Skype call on hold. After the calls, the Skype video conversation continued without a hiccup. All this on AT&amp;T&#8217;s wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit of Skype over FaceTime of course is the fact that so many Skype clients are out there &#8211; not only on mobile devices but on laptops and desktops.<\/p>\n<p>It is obviously a few days early &#8211; it is officially a 2010 release but I do predict Skype video calling to be a killer mobile app for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Tom <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/skype\/skype-video-for-iphone.asp\">writes up<\/a> the experience we had and adds photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did a brief test of Skype video calling on the iPhone &#8211; it works on the iPad as well. TMC&#8217;s Tom Keating and I tried calling over WiFi and AT&amp;T 3G. WiFi worked amazingly well and the first 3G call I tried just hung. My second attempt to call Tom&#8217;s iPhone 3GS with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,1680,158,168,170,171,181,172,196,163,199,203,206,118,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}