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We may have to wait another year for Verizon to switch over to VoLTE services (voice-over-LTE), but a new partnership with Gameloft will allow gamers to voice chat over Big Red’s next-gen data network all they want. The publisher announced earlier in the month that the ability to talk smack to your opponent in-game over [...]

Our friends at Shape Services have let us know that their IM+ Android application, a multi-protocol instant messaging client, has been given a significant upgrade. One of the biggest changes among many is the support for a native Honeycomb user interface – there’s never a shortage of apps with Honeycomb-compatible user interfaces. We’re also getting [...]

It’s been a delicate issue within the Android community, mainly with those who are current T-Mobile customers. If you recall, the latest update of Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread brought with it a much anticipated new feature, video chat. A lot of users were ecstatic with the new prospect of Google Talk’s video chat feature. But that [...]

The Nexus S received native video chat support via GTalk through the recent Android 2.3.4 update, but if you have the Google handset on T-Mobile you might be having a bit of trouble using the new feature over a 3G connection. Carriers apparently have the final say in exactly how video chat is enabled, and [...]

I’m sure you’ve no doubt heard that Google was nice enough to finally release an update to Gingerbread that gives Nexus S users the ability to video-chat using the native Google Talk app. Pretty sweet of them. Even if only 4 percent of people in the world are actually running Android 2.3 Gingerbread on their [...]

Google is launching an update to Android Gingerbread, version 2.3.4. But the big news? The update brings video chat via GTalk to Android smartphones. This is the same functionality we first saw implemented in Honeycomb, and allows any Android phone with the proper version of Gingerbread to conduct a video chat with anyone using a [...]

Everyone was hoping the updated Skype with video chat would ship alongside the Thunderbolt, but alas it didn’t quite make the ship date (the service featured heavily into some of the Thunderbolt’s in-store advertising but then fell victim to a curious cover up by VZW). Now, though the release isn’t official, the APK for Skype [...]

The set of images we saw earlier of Verizon’s in-store HTC Thunderbolt display also came with a look at the in-store promotional pamphlet VZW will use to push the device. Among its pages we see numerous mentions of the speed of Big Red’s 4G LTE network and how it relates to a few key features [...]

Blazing fast 3G/4G-enabled, Android 2.2-powered smartphone with 3.8-inch touchscreen and Video Chat capabilities Compatible with T-Mobile’s growing HSPA+ 4G network–up to 3 times faster than standard 3G networks 5-MP camera with HD 720p video capture; Wireless-N Wi-Fi; Bluetooth stereo music; 4 GB internal memory plus microSD expansion Up to 6 hours of talk time, up [...]

When we posted our “This Hour in Nexus S and Gingerbread” report earlier this morning, I wondered if Google Talk was really getting voice and video features. It’s something we heard might’ve been in the works for Gingerbread long before Google announced it, and new evidence from the SDK files uncovered the same Video and [...]