iPhone 4 — Apple confirms no charges for FaceTime video chat
By Andrew on June 21st, 2010
Apple has confirmed that using FaceTime, the iPhone 4′s video chat feature, won’t count towards your contract’s minutes. It will be — at least for now — completely free.
FaceTime is one of the new flagship features of the iPhone 4. It’s a video chat function that runs off the iPhone 4′s Wi-Fi connection. This limits the uses of FaceTime, but also makes sure that it’s completely free because no phone data is used — everything will be transmitted over your home broadband connection (or whatever Wi-Fi hotspot you’re using).
You can start a FaceTime “video call” from within a normal phone call, but once you kick-start FaceTime, it’ll switch from your phone minutes to Wi-Fi, so no additional minutes are used.
The next step for FaceTime will be enabling it over 3G, which will then start eating up your data allowance, but while it’s Wi-Fi-only and only between iPhone users, we’re confident in calling it “free”. The iPhone 4‘s official launch is this Thursday, 24 June.
via Business Insider
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