I just wanted to throw in my $.02 worth.

It isn't the 5 minutes that throw people off, it is the uncertain payback from the 5 minutes (and like one person already pointed out, will you have to re-invest that time later to set it up again? That uncertainty is also a huge stumbling block).

And for the record, it took me wayyyyyy more than 5 minutes. I've been trying on and off to get video chat working between an N800 and an N810 for months. (I bought them to investigate VoIP and video calling). I couldn't get it to work until today.

Most successful video calls seem to go through google talk, but I didn't want to use google talk. I've been trying to get gizmo (4 and 5) to work with sip accounts (and some grandcentral thrown in). But it never worked for me. Voice worked just fine, video never made it over the network.

My wife is going out of town for the better part of a week and since she has stated how she will miss us and wants to video call, I stooped to setting up a second googletalk account. Using that, I was able to make video calls at last. Googletalk to Googletalk. (ambivalent Google cheer here. They are a public company now that by law needs to put shareholder value first.)

That doesn't seem to be what most people are thinking of (considering that many savvy people are using asterix) but that was what I was reduced to. At least it works now, but I spent way more than 5 minutes on this, and I can tell you for certain that my mom would not.

I am happy that we now have a way to videochat, but I am still nonplussed that I couldn't get it to work any other way. (tips and pointers on how to get it to work otherwise are still appreciated, though I won't be able to test them for a few weeks.)