Here is another concept that is still yet a concept, but you know there was a day when the iPhone was just a concept as well, so expect to see this in the future, and near future I would suspect. This technology will bring video chats to your cell phone, making video chat capabilities go with you as you travel. A novel idea of course, and one that has been bound to transpire. The concept is in the test phase now with Global IP solutions which is providing a new video chat engine that will turn every smart phone into a video phone. You will be able to use peer-to-peer video and video conferencing through what is called the GIPS Video Engine Mobile Platform, a similar platform that Global IP uses for Voice chats with the iPhone.
The Video Engine will as they say ‘take advantage of network effects and hardware limitations’ and the key selling feature to that is that you won’t be dealing with data packet loss and your lip synchronization will be protected. What is needed to turn this from concept to usable technology is the fact that phone carriers will have to sign on to use the bandwidth and data heavy feature and users of the technology will need headsets to initiate the video calls, in a manner similar to the current Skype process. However, with hands free driving becoming a necessity these days, by the time this is launched users will already have this accessory on hand.
The unfortunate thing to this concept is that it is currently only restricted to certain phones, as the GIPS system functions through Windows Mobile Hardware and thus requires an Intel XScale PX310 Processor, and soooo….the elitist iPhone users will not be able to use this right away. The only phones that currently have this technology that will be able to use it are the HP IPaq line, Samsung SGH i780, and the GSmart. Of course however, we ALL now how technology moves. There once was a day, and not that long ago, when the iPhone was the only phone available with a touch screen, soo….probably just a matter of time before this technology moves to other interfaces.
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