Hands-On AT&T’s Video Share

I played around with a few phones using AT&T ’s new Video Share service , which requires UMTS HSDPA , so it ’s not live everywhere . New York just baffle it this workweek , LA should have it by September . If you do n’t screw what it is , it ’s a mode for one somebody to show the other individual streaming video during a call . Although one - way video cyclosis seems less coherent than two - way , I can tell you that it ’s play , and it seems like it would be amazingly useful . The slowdown was n’t terrible , and you’re able to express on the conversation in speakerphone or on Bluetooth phone so that you’re able to watch the action . But you have to have the right phone . ( iPhone need not put on . )

Currently the handset that work are the LG CU500v , Samsung a707 , Samsung a717 and Samsung a727 , with 9 to 11 compatible gimmick sold by AT&T by twelvemonth ’s end . Also , like anything else , you need to pay extra for the servicing . It ’s $ 4.99 per calendar month for 25 hour ( cumulative , not continuous ) and $ 9.99 for 60 minutes . There ’s also an a la carte du jour plan that ’s 35 cents per minute which actually sounds like the best good deal of all . How many fourth dimension a calendar month are you going to be at the grocery store going , “ Hey , which smorgasbord of miniature eggplant bush do you need ? ” and really involve the video . What ’s cool is that only the transmitting phone is charged for the overhaul , though both call for to be signed up one manner or another .

It may occur to you to require , as I did , whether or not you could save the video you transmit . The answer is , “ Absolutely . ” The video you flow is cached to memory as you go . If you track down out of computer storage , it stops saving the video recording , but keep streaming it . I was a little loll that the recipient ca n’t save the video recording — AT&T says it ’s for privacy reasons . Hopefully we ’ll get some video of Video Share up so you may see it in military action . I ’ll confess the cause I ca n’t is because there ’s no AT&T HSDPA religious service in my thickly populated NYC suburb . An progeny that will have to be answer before AT&T can become a tru playa in the Northeast . ( Not just HSDPA . Even iPhones can only venture so far into our fair countryside before losing all connectivity , but that ’s another account . Or is it ? ) [ AT&T Video Share ]

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