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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocket now calm the promise of real-time video chat over our mobile phones is somewhat unfulfilled we've got FaceTime which will only work over Wi-Fi and it only works with Apple devices we've got quick which works pretty well over Android and some other platforms but not everyone is a quick account and then there is Skype the mother of them all everyone's got a Skype account and it is finally being rolled out in an on beta version that will work on Android phones to take advantage of your front-facing camera as long as you have a higher-end Android phone running Gingerbread and in this video we're going to test the non beta final version of Skype with the video chat built right in should be pretty cool let's get to it okay so let's get started previously we tested this version of Skype in the beta form on the HTC Thunderbolt back many months ago they've been working on this for a very long time and now it's ready to test so we're going to call Tony here and see how it works so there's my face there's the beautiful light on the ceiling and there's the camera and something's going to happen I hear him and I see him oh hey Tony oh very good so so the video quality is quite good we've got an annoying reflection your output the tilt the device down and you can move the little thumbnail preview of yourself around on the screen or you can actually minimize it altogether if you realize you don't want to see yourself you just want to see the other person yeah and the the video quality is quite good you're over Wi-Fi right Tony oh yeah actually I connected directly from the desktop so I'm talking to you from my PC and I believe you're talking to me from your phone oh so he's on his PC and I'm on the phone right now and it's it's it's working quite well we're going to test this over HSPA+ and let you know what the results will be but obviously it'll be slower a little bit more choppy but probably good enough and and certainly the the audio is coming through quite clearly I'm about two feet away from the device it's picking up the audio and then coming through quite clearly can you can you also switch it to handset mode so that you don't have to hold your phone in front of you so you can put it to your head let's see so let's see what options we have we've got mute this button which will turn on the back camera or turn off a video that will enable the preview window and the menu button will put you on hold so no there's there's really there are really no options here to be able to use handset mode although if I would have made this call as a audio call I think those options would have existed very good so Skype for skype Final Four for Android looks to be pretty good and a it's it's fulfilling its promise for video chat over mobile devices you know what's funny I've tried this end on my Android 2.2 Froyo HTC Desire and attract placing a audio call to that service which is coming from Skype the audio testing service and I could hear barely almost every sixth word so it was awful and I was over Wi-Fi and it's so strange what isn't isn't the requirement for this to work to have Gingerbread although you're making an audio call so it shouldn't have any even matters yeah also those video calls on on Froyo to but it works only with the bad camera regardless if you have a webcam or not but but the audio quality was was awful maybe I should try to get maybe I had a bad connection that is possible curious to see what other people think if you're out there trying this on Android let us know what you think of the quality of the video quality of the audio quality let us know which device you have and how it's working so thanks Tony for the call and catch you later Joe