Evidence of Video Conferencing Rediscovered in iPad 3.2 SDK

9 to 5 mac has a post saying that the iphone is getting ichat!! I googled and found out that another site said someone is looking deep into the sdk 3.2 and found telephony codes of ichat. Also, they found handwriting stuff, too. Maybe Steve will have a latest creation part 2. That would be cool!

www.9to5mac.com

9to5mac.com has had some informtion that shows some pretty good indicators in the code for video chat coming to iPhones as a feature. http://www.9to5mac.com/iphone-video-chat-340968306

From the SDK:
AcecptVIdeo
DeclineOrEndVideo
and
buttonWIdthinitforVideoChatWithFrame

Likely it'd come on an iPhone before an iPad(if it will go to the iPad (docked). Images from 9to5mac.com

Handwriting isn't necessarily a biggy - we've known that the SDK does some of the chinese glyph(?) recognition already. Does it make sense for the iPhone? Not so much.

Reverse with video chat - whilst it's easier to see on the go video chat with the iPhone, an iPad docked would be a pretty good video chat machine. Saying that, unless they swap in a video sensor, then it ain't happening.

It's debatable that video will come for iPad vs iPhone or both. But iPhone already has one 3MPixel sensor, which is likely going to get an upgrade. Touch likel to get one too once they update again.

Nice find. Hopefully we'll get it in 4.0.

that'd be sweet but can't imagine SJ letting us have something "so trivial".... ;)

that'd be sweet but can't imagine SJ letting us have something "so trivial".... ;)

I really doubt we'd get it. Especially us Americans on AT&T. That network can't handle phone calls and people expect it to handle video-chatting (which requires uploading video and downloading it at the same time very quickly without lag).

I really doubt we'd get it. Especially us Americans on AT&T. That network can't handle phone calls and people expect it to handle video-chatting (which requires uploading video and downloading it at the same time very quickly without lag).

AT&T does Already do a video share feature. But they may well hold the feature back. It could easily work over wifi only if they wanted to. Just because AT&T has some 3g dead zones doesn't mean they'll hold it back for the rest of us - see tethering, MMS for example.

AT&T does Already do a video share feature. But they may well hold the feature back. It could easily work over wifi only if they wanted to. Just because AT&T has some 3g dead zones doesn't mean they'll hold it back for the rest of us - see tethering, MMS for example.

Yeah but video-share doesn't upload AND download video at the same time. One user uploads and the other downloads in Video-Share.

I personally feel its too early to implement this as it would require a 2-camera device, which would add bulk to the iPhone size (seeing as how Steve is obsessed with thinness).

I mean - how sure were we when we even saw physical hardware evidence of a camera on the iPod touches? I feel lots of stuff is just in the SDK but may not be implemented anytime soon (kind of like Apple's crazy patents).

Why does there have to be 2 cameras for video chat? Can't they just use the one on the back? You can talk on speaker, or through a mic or bluetooth or something.

Maybe I'm wrong but that sounds like it could work.

Why does there have to be 2 cameras for video chat? Can't they just use the one on the back? You can talk on speaker, or through a mic or bluetooth or something.

Maybe I'm wrong but that sounds like it could work.

Are you going to hold the phone backwards and not be able to see the screen? Defeats the purpose of video chat.