Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

ok Gizmo vs. Skype which is better?

what's SIP?

Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

Skype does not support video calls on the N810, unlike Gizmo. For talking, I'd guess they're roughly the same, although I prefer gizmo as it uses less CPU (=longer battery life) when idle.

Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

i use skype because tons of people have it and i can still use voice chat.... i was also rather disapointed that skype does not support video chat :(

Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

Truth is, who you want to communicate with determines which package to use. That give Skype the edge. Rumors are that eBay want's to sell Skype and Google is a potential buyer.

Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

any idea why Skype doesn't support video chat on n810 but it works on Windows desktops? Is there any workarounds?

Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

Skype is proprietary (=closed source & protocols) so no workarounds are possible, unfortunately. Based on some posts on their forums the educated guess is that their video codec is not optimized enough for ARM based MIDs.

Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

Or a desktop client that supports Jingle video. There are two or three such clients for Linux. I'm not sure if there are any for Windows or Mac OS.

Google pretty much wrote the Jingle video specification themselves. They've just forgotten to implement it.

Re: Just got my n810, now with 6 questions (and counting)
 

so what do people use for video chat besides Gizmo5?