FaceTime From the Middle of Pacific Ocean [Video]
If you have an iPhone 4, you’ve tried FaceTime. Either you’ve called Apple, or you’ve started a video call with one of your friends. I did both. What I didn’t do, is try FaceTime from unusual locations, say airplanes. TUAW did, and it’s an impressive result.
But Wifi from a plane seems almost “easy” and “standard”,...
Rumor: FaceTime for iPod touch will use email address
Filed under: iPod touchThere are rumors about the next iPod touch getting a front-facing camera with support for FaceTime. Once it gets an A4 processor and some more RAM, we can't see why it wouldn't.
Since there's no phone app, however, how will use...
David Lanham’s FaceTime Portraits
How far can a designer push his creativity? I guess it’s just about inspirations and the tools you have with you. Ask David Lanham, designer over at the Iconfactory (developers of apps such as Twitterrific), who’s started drawing portraits / caricatures over FaceTime. We interviewed David last year during the Apps Tree, in case you...
Boy Genius Claims that FaceTime is Coming to iPod and iPad
We pretty much figured that FaceTime would eventually end up on the iPod relatively soon, but we didn’t think we’d hear millings about the iPad just yet (considering it doesn’t have a front facing camera). Sure the iPad would make the perfect FaceTime device — but this leads us to ponder whether Apple will release...
Video relay calling breakthrough uses FaceTime to help the deaf
Filed under: iPhone

FaceTime: Now Working on Planes, Too
Ok, so we know FaceTime is a great technology. Video calling is nothing new, but Apple’s implementation is perfect: one-tap calling, simple UI, easy to use.
How stable and compatible can Apple’s FaceTime be, anyway? We’ve read reports of firewalls blocking its connection. Still, the good folks over at TUAW have managed to talk with a...
New iPhone 4 ads highlight FaceTime, tug at the old heartstrings
Filed under: iPhone
It's too early to say whether or not the phrase "There's an app for that" has been banished to the fabled Island of Forgotten Taglines, but if the latest series of iPhone ads is any indication, FaceTime is now the star -- not the ap...
Apple's heart-breaking ad campaign
Eight months after it wrapped up the "Get a Mac" series, Apple rolls out a worthy successor Here's one thing Apple (AAPL) does better than any of its competitors: advertise on television. Microsoft (MSFT) never quite recovered from the three-and-a-half-year drubbing it took at the hands of Justin Long and John Hodgman. Google (GOOG) is...
Apple Posts 4 New FaceTime Ads
Apple has just started rolling out four new iPhone 4 commercials, each of them about FaceTime.
The new ads, available for streaming here, are named “Meet her”, “Haircut”, “Smile” and “Big News” – all of them are focused on every day situations that will surely help people better understand the whole FaceTime concept.
Well played, Apple. Check...
Getting some FaceTime — hints and tips about iPhone 4 video calls
Filed under: iPhone
When I ordered my iPhone 4 on June 16th for delivery in July, one of the features that I was intrigued about was FaceTime, Apple's Wi-Fi video calling application. Sure, other phones have had this feature for a while, but for me thi...
The iPhone 4 and the growing art of self-photography
Filed under: iPhoneThis little piece over on the New York Times Fashion and Style page is only tangentially related to our subject at hand, which is that the onset of the iPhone 4 and its front-facing camera has put a spotlight on the growing art of se...

