Video: Windows Phone’s Tango video calling on Mango
First, this is a different Tango. Not the post Mango update, but an application for Video calling on Windows Phone.
This is to show the front facing camera in action. The video is nicely done in full screen. Expect to have this functionality embedded into Windows Phone when skype becomes fully integrated.
Front facing cameras seem to be “all the rage” since iPhone’s FaceTime ‘reinvented’ the video calling feature. Both by the way that mundane things Apple get around to putting in make ignorant folk think they invented it, and also by their admirable nature of polishing features to make it much easier and better for average folks to use. Here, they took the much forgotten phone video calling, jazzed it up with a stupid name called FaceTime, and genuinely did make it simple to use. I know Symbian has video calling over 3G, but the quality is terrible and the controls are difficult (options>use secondary camera. Nope, just tap). There’s also no full screen video or higher quality video over skype. Only N900 really changed it up a little, but as we know, that amazing phone never did get the love and development it deserved.
Cheers @ezzyboy for the tip.
Category: Applications, Nokia, Windows Phone
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Chances are I will never use it but it looks good enough!..
That HTC Titan is looking nice though, so thin and 2.2 camera for low light, going to be so tempting even though I want to wait to see what Nokia brings!
windows tango is cool but windows mango is gona rock in Nokia phones.Key feature is Nokia maps,Nokia store and a whole lot of nokia beta applications ………. So the experience is different from that of HTC or a Samsung WP7 devices!!!!!What so ever nokia has no plans of any dual core processors till 2012 Q3 .
Nokia Maps will be bigb but hopefully they will do amazing things with the cameras and software for developing the photos. That is the area I really expect Nokia to innnovate and shine.
omg they’re copying Apple! WHERE ARE THE LAWYERS?!
you are joking right??
nothing gets by you!
OMG apple lied they invented video call poor cheap whores but the truth is it is NOKIA NOKIA and NOKIA who invented video calling it has been in Nokia phones since the mighty N95. So first sue the bloody man Jobs and apple…. not Microsoft atleast m icrosoft never said they invented video calling
“…fall in love with windows phone again.” Umm you cant say “again” if it never happened to begin with. LOL!
Care.
make me sick!
WTF!!! Where is Nokia !!! weren’t they suppose to get this first…may be not…but what the Fu*k is the deal between them…
Mango/Tango may be good. But still why I hate MS and the MS crony Elop:
“Mosaid deal raises worry of anti-trust probes”
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Mosaid+deal+raises+worry+anti+trust+probes/5416913/story.html
That HTC titan is frickin HUGE !!!!!
Not huge enough though. Samsung Note anyone? :p
That’s what she said!
Windows Fail 7 SUCKS!
Do not buy this bland shit with squares on it.
I think we’ve found a salesperson better than Steve Jobs, whoever came up with this Tiles shit must be one hell of a salesman to sell it to Microsoft.
Bland background with block squares on it… brilliant! They don’t even have any shadows or depth or anything, just are just flat. Amazing!
Also these tiles don’t really seem to display any useful information, they are too small and too restricted in shape, they just animate, widgets are better and they actually show something.
Are you telling us what to buy? Go away
Troll . . . .
I’ve tried the w7 phones and however the ui may look gorgeous but apps crash left and right and I’m not just talking one particular device but two different ones and crash after crash. Along with the fact that the apps are overly price and they have the nerd to charge for messaging apps
You tried, but did you own? I had a HTC HD7 for nearly 12 months and very rarely did apps crash. Post the NoDo update I don’t think I had one crash.
Compared to my Nexus One it had regular force closes until 2.3 which is the most stable Android release so far.
My N8 was pretty stable, but the OS is far more mature than WP7 so you would not expect app crashes.
The more mobile OS’s out theree the better for the consumer.
Barry