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Dragoon is offline Dragoon
2009-02-01 , 07:47
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ok Gizmo vs. Skype which is better?

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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-02-01 , 13:10
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ok Gizmo vs. Skype which is better?
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.
 
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2009-02-01 , 19:28
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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
 
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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.
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Dragoon is offline Dragoon
2009-02-03 , 15:52
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any idea why Skype doesn't support video chat on n810 but it works on Windows desktops? Is there any workarounds?
 
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any idea why Skype doesn't support video chat on n810 but it works on Windows desktops? Is there any workarounds?
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.
 
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2009-02-03 , 16:21
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Originally Posted by namtastic View Post
You can't video chat/internet call to people in Google Talk unless they are also using an N810/N800.
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.
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2009-02-03 , 16:25
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so what do people use for video chat besides Gizmo5?
 
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