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Nz_Dude: Jama,
Do you have a realease date for video calling as i have been told 10-11 months away but I have a feeling telecom wont realease it as it was such a flop for voda....
sbiddle: You also need to look at something more obvious - what use really is a video call? Video phones have been around for 20+ years for PSTN lines yet nobody has one!
Nz_Dude: One of my relations is a major share holder in voda
Grantis:sbiddle: You also need to look at something more obvious - what use really is a video call? Video phones have been around for 20+ years for PSTN lines yet nobody has one!
Perhaps the "Mobility" has something to do with it. It also has various handy business applications & it's damn fun!
sbiddle:
There definately are great uses for it and the mobility aspect is the reason that it is popular while PSTN video phones aren't. I still find holding a phone at arms length and talking on speakerphone very whierd though! Like people who were looked like idiots walking around with Bluetooth headsets on I guess it's something society will eventually accept! :-)
Nz_Dude: Trust me its a flop. One of my relations is a major share holder in voda and they arent happy with what they got for $700 million. Just like the very interesting reason they stopped screening the video calling ads. Its handy having a relation he can tell me the inside info and I also got a sharp v902 very cool but very fat but it was ok for free i guess. But the problem is i only know one person with video calling.
sbiddle:Nz_Dude: One of my relations is a major share holder in voda
That sounds like a great Tui billboard..
Exactly who is this "relation"? Considering Vodafone NZ is 100% owned by the Vodafone Group you'd have to be a worth probably $50+ billion just to be a small shareholder in Vodafone.
jvorback: Talking to our company's mobile account manager, Telecom's T3G service can already handle live video calling - the just haven't bothered turning it on because it's had such as lukewarm response everywhere else in the world.
After all, both Telecom and Vodafone use CDMA technology for their 3G networks, so it would make sense that if one can do it so can the other. The feedback that I've had from people who have seen video calling in action is that the quality is pretty poor, especially if there's any movement involved (forget trying to video someone waterskiing down a flooded street - nice commercial, not very realistic)
The problem that Vodafone have is that this type of technology appeals mainly to kids, and most of them can't afford the cost of the phone. And even if they did get one, chances are that no one else they know would have one. So... who that gonna call?
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