Whatever!!!!

Fascinating. So I could hook it up to Jablet somehow and have all my IM, including video chat?

I was able to add Ricky (and for those of you that want to add Gizmo users to your Jabber rosters, use gizmousername@chat.gizmoproject.com), however the tablet doesn't allow me to use his Gizmo account for making an internet call from RTCOMM. Oh well.

It's possible that the tablet software says "Only users that have Telepathy as their resource should show up as possible people to video call"...

There might yet be a way around this, depending on what Gizmo uses for video calling.

Gizmo itself isn't jabber though it does have its own jabber server. Gizmo is chiefly a sip based app.

As far as I know, Gizmo is basically a custom Jabber server with SIP included.

Well, I am unable to get video to run on my n810 using Gismo. I also have Gismo installed on the P.C. as well. So, video is not yet a reality. I would like to know what I am doing wrong.

Surprisingly, I don't have any problems with the concept of the camera in the N800. Its low resolution more or less matches the screen resolution (although an 800x480 CCD would have made more sense), so it's quite suited to take quick snaps to be viewed on screen only (video-blogging jumps to mind, or that picture-and-text database I keep dreaming about). Since Nokia went throught the trouble of making it rotatable, it was obviously meant for more than just video-calling.

Here's the problem, and it's the same with so many other aspects of the Internet Tablets: Nokia puts in a hardware feature... and then seemingly forgets to tell the software developers it's there. Bluetooth had to be hacked by users in the 770, USB host the same. The touchscreen layer of the tablets is pressure sensitive, but only one developer managed to use it, and Nokia's own painting software doesn't do anything with it.

The camera is the same: it just sits there, doing nothing that's even remotely interesting. As someone wrote: About the most interesting thing the camera does, is add an awkward bulge to the N800.

This is an interesting problem. With the N800, the physical camera had to be 'opened' in order to 'turn it on' in Gizmo. I wonder if this is the root of the problem for the N810? Since the camera is already 'opened', the gizmo software may not be getting the necessary 'open' event and thus assume that the camera is not accessible.

In any case, it's strange that the Gizmo team would release their new v4 client for the N810, advertise video calling on the site, and not have this feature available. Indeed, I've watched videos of it video-call working from an N800 to a PC using the new v4 client. The fact that it isn't working for the N810 is truly puzzling.

Can anyone confirm that the camera is indeed operational (even if it isn't useful)?


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I seem to remember there being a button that must be clicked after a call is established to start video.

Correct. Once in a call, you must activate video.