facetime over 3g

[Anonymous]

can you use facetime over 3g on an iphone 4 with 750 mg data and on a iphone data bolt on and iphone tariff ?

[Anonymous]

I held a FaceTime call with my son yesterday. He uses a 4s and I use a 5. I can see the feature being a novel idea but I'm not keen on the service. Perhaps couples that are apart will use this.

I never liked web cams and as such I don't even use this on my MBA. And disliked my children using then too but on balance trusted in their judgement.

[darrengf]

Now I use face time all the time.

Ive used in in France, London and even on the train last night.

Its a great way to communicate for me and if its on Wifi its free.

When i was in France paticualr, I didnt pay for any phone calls, just used face time on Wifi. I was able to do live feeds and my friends and family could see things around me, I was able to show them some sights as well (Wifi Range)

I also thought it was a Novel at first, but I now use it more and more and never think twice about it.

Will be using it lots when in USA next year to face time home and even when im at disney. My family may be 4.5 thousand miles away, but they can also enjoy watching the parade on their Ipads 

Oh and and back to using Facetime on 3G. It works fine, just be mindful of Data useage thats all

[Anonymous]

i take it that it sucks up a lot of data then

[Liquid]

You could blow a 1gb data plan quite quickly:(

Downloading 720p and uploading 720p would be a considerable data hog:(

rouch figures,

720p

• Bits Per Second (down): 20+ Mbps
• Bits Per Second (up): 320Kbps
• Data used per 5 minute video: 37.5MB

these figure were from watching a YouTube video. Your looking around 70mb for a 5 minute call. Average uk call is 22minutes so  308mb for 22 minutes of call time:(

[Anonymous]

definitly not then unless using wi fi

[darrengf]

If need to, then the facetime over 3G is limited to a couple of Mins, other wise its Wifi for me.

But yes Facetime over 3G like Liquid says, consumes data alot.