Earlier this week the VP of Yahoo! Mobile in America, David Katz, let slip that Yahoo! will soon be supporting video chat on their mobile apps, including iPhone. A Yahoo Spokesperson has said that he believes:
the iPhone app has already been approved by Apple and that it would be would be available ?soon.?
The advantage of Yahoo video calling as opposed to Apple?s built-in FaceTime is that the user will not only be able make video calls with iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4. but with Android devices, Mac and Windows PCs, and anything else Yahoo supports. Yahoo?s app will also not be restricted to just Wi-Fi like FaceTime, and will be able to be used via 3G/4G.
Apple used open standards to make FaceTime and has said they?re releasing FaceTime back as an open standard itself, but since it seems to be taking a while, are you interested in Yahoo! as a FaceTime alternative? Do you think Yahoo will do it right?
[iTunes link - Reuters]
by George Lim
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