Comments on: Saygus Announces “Competitive Pricing” Video Phone

By: rkaid___

rkaid___ — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:23:07 +0000

The new iPhone is meant to have a forward facing camera for vid conf, i would imagine new HTC’s and the like will have it.
Its the same old story though, vid conf wont take off, until the majority of the ppl that you regular call, have the same ability… and it MUST be cross platform for it to take off.

By: Del

Del — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:37:04 +0000

Hmm…I’m interested as to what version of Andy will be shipping with this device. It looks like the screen shots show a degenerate form of Sense, but that can’t be…I doubt HTC would allow their skin to be used by another company.

By: Mensahwatts

Mensahwatts — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:31:35 +0000

Yes indeedy a badass looking phone! I would indeey buy it

By: rkaid___

rkaid___ — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:54:12 +0000

@ThinkOpenly – yes it does, though I would imagine you can hack a Blutooth KB/mouse into working with a Android device.
“Saygus Propietary Real-Time, Two-Way Mobile Video Calling Software – 24 to 30 Frames Per Second (Movies Standards are 24 FPS”
I don’t believe for a second, Saygus have the most efficient vid codecs.
This phone will fail. No one will hand over the coin for this thing, when they can wait a bit for hardened, proven device manufactures to simply include another camera on the front and some efficient on the fly vid compression algorithms, be it software or on a chip.

By: ThinkOpenly

ThinkOpenly — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:39:10 +0000

“USB host port”? Does that mean one can plug other USB devices to it? /me pictures a hub with a full size keyboard, mouse, DVD drive, and 1TB disk. :-)

By: Abrown

Abrown — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:21:30 +0000

Sweet! I would just like the forward camera on a Droid and then use some Skype!

By: TK

TK — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:15:48 +0000

Weak, CDMA.

By: G

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:49:00 +0000

I wonder what the price is….

By: ari-free

ari-free — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:29:26 +0000

it looks like droid with a keyboard that looks like it can be usable…

By: swehes

swehes — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:21:16 +0000

I’m looking forward to a phone that can do video conferencing on a GSM network.