Thanks For Sharing: Cingular Offers Live Video Sharing Call Service
For anyone attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas starting on Sunday, don’t waste your time looking for the Cingular Wireless booth.
Cingular will be at the booth belonging to its new parent company, AT&T.
When you get there, the buzz will be all about “live video sharing”. Cingular says it’s the first wireless carrier in the U.S. to demonstrate it.
Here’s how it will work. You’re having a wireless voice conversation via Cingular, with another Cingular customer, burning off some of your rollover minutes. Any time you like, you can hit one button on your handset and feed live video from your handset’s external camera down the line. And at any time, you can reverse the direction of the video feed. (Apparently you can only feed video one direction at a time, at this point.)
The service will only work in areas where Cingular has activated its new 3G (third-generation) high speed data services, and we’re assuming you’ll have to pay data charges or have an unlimited data package as part of your calling plan. Cingular’s press release isn’t specific about pricing, but it does say the service will be commercially available in 2007, for any Cingular customer who has a 3G-equipped video-ready handset.
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