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#12
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
you just call any mobile phone number and choose "video call" instead of "voice call" - the person you call needn't be on any internet chat service like skype or thelike, let alone be on the same network you're on or be online.

as long as they have their phone switched on and are on a 3G network (which is true for really anyone i know), it "just works". like phone calls "just work" while a skype voice call might not. (at least you'll never reach me on skype.)
For me it never "just worked", I indeed have never seen a 3G video call happening. I tried with all kinds of devices, it just never worked. Maybe my sim is old, but I tried with other sims of friends relatives etc. Maybe they were old too. But here nobody seems interested in videocalls, nobody has taken the pain (and cost) of changing the sim with a new one, I think.

Skype on the other hand "just works", and now everybody's got skype, and finally android got videocalls too.