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Apple Considering Video Call For The iPhone

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

One of the most common things iPhone users want is video calling. According to Information Week Apple is planning to add video calling to the feature list for the iPhone. The plans for video calling came from the vague and nebulous patent Apple was issued covering multi-touch and gesture control.
Apparently scattered throughout the long and boring patent granted to Apple were many mentions of video calling. Information Week believes that Apple is planning to make the iPhone a video conferencing call device. I’m not sure that is a feature I would ever use, but it’s nice to see Apple looking to add features to the iPhone.

iPod-Ready Video Downloads Offered On You Tube

Monday, January 19th, 2009

YouTube has begun to offer a click to download option on select videos. The downloaded mp4 videos are encoded in the iTunes-friendly H.264 format, and are sized with a maximum width of 480 pixels to maintain compatibility with most portable media players, such as the iPod and iPhone. The feature mirrors a prior download feature offered on Google Video, which had not been brought over to YouTube.