The Boy Genius reportsIt’s actually pretty simple… Your Apple ID will be registered with your device/s, and that will allow other Apple devices to start a FaceTime call using your email address. Apple will also reportedly make use of push notifications to deliver these incoming FaceTime connection requests as we have been informed there is a push notification detector tied into the FaceTime frameworks in the new iPhone OS 4.1 beta.”
Red more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chris D.” for the heads up.]
pushing our faces are we?
It’s called iOS 4.1 beta, not iPhone OS 4.1 beta.
Oh and, neat if true. Skype killer.
Going to want a camera to plug into the USB of the iPad.
How about the Windows iChat / FaceTime software?
Would like dual 5MB pixel cameras on an iPad. Less than 5 for one way FaceTime not so much.
Would love to see iChat on windows and FaceTime between iChat and iPhone/iPod/iPad.
Just bought my iPad last week. If they roll out new iPads with new hardware (retina display, camera) in the next two months I’m going to be really pissed, and Apple will kill early adoption on their products for the foreseeable future.
@macromancer
Agreed. They pull that then record sales for new product launches will be a thing of the past. Not unlike Apple to do such a thing though.
Yahoo…although I bought an iPad early, my kids will love V1 when I dump it on them when I go buy V2.
@Macromancer
What do you expect them to do not release new products…
Ummm what about a camera? R they talking new models? Gonna piss early adopters off AGAIN!
@FutureMedia:
You don’t need 5 megapixels for FaceTime. The iPad’s display only shows 1024 x 768 pixels = 786,432 pixels = 0.786 megapixels. Why in the world do you think a 5 megapixel camera would help FaceTime? It would just need to reduce down the number of pixels to get smooth transmission anyway!
No, having a 5 megapixel camera in the iPad might be nice, but it clearly would be of no help to FaceTime.
Obviously, though, you are a bit confused about technology, since I had to interpret 5MB pixel cameras to mean “5 megapixel cameras” – I assume you didn’t really mean “5 megabyte pixel cameras,” which is what you actually said. A “5 megabyte pixel” is nonsensical.
Adding a camera and a HD screen would bump the price so it may be made as an addition to the range rather than a wholesale replacement of the current models.
Is there a way to adapt our old iChat cameras to the iPad? Technically, not likely I know, but it would be great.
Not going to happen this quickly. Don’t worry early adopters. iPad’s won’t get cameras until version 2 in 2011 and iPod touches won’t get these features in September. September 2011 maybe….
I’m always amazed by people that by a tech gadget and then get pissed when it’s updated, regardless of the amount of time before the update. I bought the iPad knowing that it was only a matter of time before it got a camera. If that comes in September it will be annoying but I knew what I bought. I can’t hold that against Apple.
I bet iPod touch will have a front facing camera for FaceTime this Sept release. I am also going out on a limb and guess that a new iPad will be released for Christmas with front-facing camera and a mic for video chatting and voip apps. I just don’t know why early adaptors get so mad when this happens! You know there is always kinks to be worked out of any new device, but you had to be first to have one. If you don’t have the disposable funds to buy one, wait a few months like most people, to make sure of few problems.
It’s a rumor people!
I really want to be able to use FaceTime back to my family on iChat
When I started using an iPhone, I almost stopped taking my MacBook for short trips, but missed our nightly iChats
I really don’t have anyone with an iPhone that I need to video chat with, but miss seeing the family (especially when the kids are tucked in for the night) and its just my wife and I
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I don’t think this will happen this year; FaceTime will be reserved for iPhone 4 as an exclusive feature (at least until next year). It’s selling point is that it’s the “video phone call” that people have envisioned since the 1960’s, not “video chat” on a computer. And iPad does not have a built-in camera.
Apple or a third-party needs to create a Bluetooth camera for iPad. They exist for use with regular computers. That would be a much better way to add a camera to an iPad. Having a built-in camera in the iPad case (facing front or back) would require the user to hold the entire iPad awkwardly with both hand for long periods of time to keep the camera steady and in an appropriate camera-angle position. I don’t think something like that would pass the Steve Jobs usability test. It’s fine on a MacBook or iMac, because the camera is already in a good position and does not move. It’s fine in an iPhone, because the entire device is light and can be held easily with one hand to create the appropriate camera angle. With a Bluetooth (or even a Dock-connector camera on a wire), you can place the camera where you want and not worry about how the iPad is being held or aimed.