This came as another surprise lately. The FaceTime has been Apple’s prime baby in video calling, and it’s hard to imagine Apple approving 3rd party apps to access the front camera of the iPhone 4 for video calling. Fring has just updated their new ‘Fring for iPhone’ with support for the iOS 4, and added video call for the iPhone 4 using the front facing camera.
Now why would the Fring come as a surprise, is because it works over 3G. FaceTime only works over Wi-Fi at the moment, as Apple is still sorting out the data packaging and transmission with AT&T. I guess this is AT&T’s fault, with the badly hogged network. But surely FaceTime should simply work effortlessly outside of the States like Japan or UK, where the networks’ been great. It’s such a letdown that FaceTime can’t work over 3G. Perhaps Apple is yet to find a solution to optimize the FaceTime with 3G’s slow connectivity. Oh by the way, Fring’s video call works on other iPhones running on iOS 4! Yey to 3GS users.
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