Video conferencing on PDA (Windows Mobile), Android, iPhone, Maemo

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Hi,

We're planning to buy smart phone for our employees. We need them to use video conferencing via 3G, WiMax, LTE, Wi-Fi,....

What video conferencing solutions support PDA (Windows Mobile), Android, iPhone, Maemo, Blackberry? Which platform is better for video conferencing?

Fuze allows to participate in web meetings from an iPhone or BlackBerry WiFi-enabled mobile phones. It support Windows and Mac OS as well.

Although Fuze includes a Flash-based unified communications portal designed to be platform-agnostic, as well as a variety of device-specific applications, it doesn't support Linux and PDA (Windows Mobile), Android, Maemo, Symbian mobile phones.

WebEx supports iPhones:

Originally Posted by webex

You can host a WebEx meeting, and people can join from PC, Mac, Linux, Unix, and Solaris systems. You can also join from an iPhone.

And WebEx supports smartphones (Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry, Nokia):

Originally Posted by webex

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center allows business professionals to easily and reliably reach across the web to collaborate with colleagues, partners and customers, inside and outside their organization. The solution increases the reach, speed and the cost effectiveness of business through media-rich web-based meetings that enable multiple parties to conduct business meetings online—anywhere, anytime, any device including computers (Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix) and now on BlackBerry smartphones and other smartphones.


WebEx Meeting Center features available on smartphones
WebEx meeting attendees can now join scheduled meetings through the browsers of smartphones:

• Attend a pre-scheduled meeting on 3G or WiFi supported smartphones with integrated audio and data. Attendees can join meeting from the meeting invitation email, from a link in the calendar event, or from the company’s WebEx site—all from smartphones.
• View a presentation, application, and desktops shared from another computer with annotations.
• View list of meeting participants and meeting information.
• WebEx meetings needs to be first scheduled and started on a computer.

Which smartphones support WebEx Meeting Center and what are the system requirements?

• BlackBerry: Curve 8900, Bold 9000, Storm 9500 in Europe
• Nokia: N85, N86, N96, N97, 5630, 5730, 6710, 6210, 6220, 5800 Xpress, E51, E52, E55, E61i, E63, E65, E66, E71, E71X, E90
• Windows Mobile (PDA): Samsung BlackJack II, Samsung Omnia, Motorola Q8, HTC Fuze, HTC Touch
• Android: G1

The will be more smartphones added as soon as they are certified by WebEx.

Note: the solution may work on other browsers (such as, Opera, Firefox, etc.). Cisco has not extensively tested on these browsers.

[Albin Colbran]

That was a cool Post. By the way i had attended a video conferencing before. It was a global virtual conference via WebEx.

ooVoo is a proprietary instant messaging client developed by ooVoo LLC. for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iPhone/iPad. It is similar to Skype and Apple's iChat. Calls can be recorded in real-time.

ooVoo allows registered users to communicate through free instant messaging, voice and video chat. ooVoo conferencing software enables high quality video and audio calls with up to twelve locations at the same time – six on video and six on phone (Six-way video calls are free). ooVoo supports high resolution video and desktop sharing. ooVoo allows to make phone calls to landlines and mobile phones for a fee from PC and Mac.



Features:

• Video calls - free video calls with up to 6 people. Paid video conferencing with more users .
• Web video chat - Browser-based video call allows the creator of the web chat to invite non-ooVoo users into the call via email, instant messaging, or social network.
• Video messaging - Free video messages up to 1 minute long can be recorded and sent to another user, to email or shared on YouTube.
• Instant messaging - Free multi-party text chat with its own instant messenger client. IM chat is supported at any time, as well as during a live video call.
• Phone calls – Paid calls from ooVoo to landlines and mobile phones in over 50 countries worldwide.
• Desktop sharing (paid) – Allows users to share their screen live during a video call.
• File sharing – Send large files (up to 25MB) to any ooVoo contact quickly and securely.
• Video call recording – Record and store video calls to share or reuse at a later date for free.
• HD/High resolution video calls - When you're in a 1 on 1 video call, both participants can send in HD or High Resolution. In multi-party calls, only one participant can display video in HD or High Resolution at any time.

[richardalveranga]

I agree with tpyshangxin. My brother and I use oovoo to communicate all the time. This is very effective for getting "your point across". We spend more time communicating than "freezing" up on eachother. May it has to do with the compression ratio.

[pierdkk]

Very cool thread. Never heard other than skype and can't wait to use. Seems like OoVoo (strange name to choose) even support HD cams