How do you do video conferencing with N97?
I figured front camera on this phone is for video chats, right? So why won't fring utilize it? What about upcoming Skype?
Side-topic: I'm with AT&T in USA with unlimited data plan and I get full bars/excellent signal and 3.5G everywhere, but my speed is kind of low, nowhere near 14mbps like 3.5G advertises. I download at like 100 Kbytes/sec max. Is this normal? Any way to boost it?
You cannot use the front camera for Skype, Fring or MSN at this moment in time. The closest thing you can get is to use a 3rd party app that turns your phone into a webcam via USB or BT to a PC or laptop and using it through your computer. I remember raising this as a "nice to have" back then when people say the secondary camera is useless.. 😊
The phone companies is not stupid - they want more people to use Video calls more so than letting people use data based video conferencing. Conspiracies aside, how much are you paying per minute on the Video calls versus data? Of course they will want to prohibit this capability to force people to pay more..
I only pay for data. i didnt know video calls are separate price. But i think its up to developers of skype to make front camera work like that. i mean if it can be used as a webcam for pc then there is no reason for it not to work with skype or fring.