subject: The iPhone 4 offers FaceTime for video calling [print this page] The iPhone 4 offers FaceTime for video calling
The iPhone 4 offers FaceTime for video calling and self portrait shots as well as self-portrait videos. The app utilizes the front facing camera as well as the main 5 megapixel rear facing camera to offer one tap video calls between users of the handset.
The phone has a front facing VGA camera which is capable of instantly focusing on you, while the rear camera which has 5 megapixel resolution respectively focuses on everything else. The FaceTime app allows you to switch between the two cameras at any time you wish during a video call allowing you to show video of the location you are in to the other person. You can then switch back to the view of just you. This is performed seamlessly via a single icon tap of the onscreen controls offered by the application. The other simplistic and straightforward controls are an End Call icon and a volume control icon, which mutes the other caller if necessary.
The iPhone 4 is the first model of the World's single best selling mobile handset to provide a front camera in addition to its rear camera, which ids also now supported by an LED flash. The front camera and the addition of the preinstalled FaceTime app, allow the handset to once again raise the bar to other mobile manufacturers when it comes to video calling. Although the technology has been around for some years now, this phone really does make it seamless, and enjoyable to make a video call. The FaceTime app itself, works from just one tap of its respective icon which sits beside any phone book contact with an iPhone 4 or latest iPod Touch. One tap of the app's icon starts a video call to that person. It really is that simple, and easy to use.
What makes video calling great is that it allows people particularly with young children to not only hear their family members, but also see them on a crystal clear Retina display and through the high quality service offered by the WiFi which is utilized to provide the video calling in the first instance. The family and friends factor has been played to by Apple, launching this handset almost entirely on the fact that FaceTime and video calling are part of it. Overall the iPhone 4 now provides a simple and typically easy to use application, which is preinstalled and instantly ready to use, to stay in touch with someone in a whole new way.
