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  • Seems silly… like “123” notes; the beta version allowed camera switching on the Thunderbolt. Now the beta won’t even run… What’s up with that? I think I’ll market the flip up mirror for the Thunderbolt so the camera can see your reflection 🙂

  • Got a D3, on a skype video call, I can see the other person, it let’s me toggle between cams but shows my screen black, what’s up with that skype?
    when are you gonna let it work on my D3?

  • i have samsung droid charge, but i cant use front camera! how should i do??????????

  • I have had it wih Skype and the Thunderbolt. What a crappy experience. It’s the entire reason many of us bought the Thunderbolt. Now the FFC doesn’t work with it? WTF? why even bother? It worked great with the leaked beta. Very disappointing… Thanks for nothing!

  • Why put out an app that doesn’t allow you to see the person you’re chatting with and use the front facing camera? Fail Skype.

  • I downloaded this but can’t get the front camera to work. Only gives an option for the back camera. Am I missing something or will that be a later update?

  • The video images seem to backwards, the smaller video is the other person while the larger video is my back camera image.  Also, same issue as others stated that I can’t use my front facing camera on my LG Revolution. 

  • The video images seem to backwards, the smaller video is the other person while the larger video is my back camera image.  Also, same issue as others stated that I can’t use my front facing camera on my LG Revolution. 

  • The video images seem to backwards, the smaller video is the other person while the larger video is my back camera image.  Also, same issue as others stated that I can’t use my front facing camera on my LG Revolution. 

  • The video images seem to backwards, the smaller video is the other person while the larger video is my back camera image.  Also, same issue as others stated that I can’t use my front facing camera on my LG Revolution. 

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  • Skype!!!! You ass dwelling monkeys!!!!  Talk about being un-fashionably late.  I’ve been using Tango for a while now on my stock thunderbolt with 2.2, (it does have it’s quirks now and then, but it works). 

    Tango works over wifi, 3g and 4g.  Skype doesn’t have support for 4g…not yet at least.   You can use your front camera and it creates a list of the contacts on your phone that use Tango too.  Support for PC to smartphone video calls are cumming soon to all of your faces!!!!

    • well, the leaked version by DL worked perfect for me on my TB until the last update and then broke it…bastards!!! Now the leaked version will only give me audio, no video…Gonna root soon

  • WTF!!!! ={ The Droid 3 has been out for almost a month and still no support for video!!!!!!!!!

  • No FFC until Gingerbread…..which TB won’t have until “some time in the 3Q” like was said about the 2Q?   Seriously Skype, WTF?

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  • It is amazing. Why would skype even bother releasing half baked product.

    Previous leaked version had support for front facing camera, official one does not.

    It seems there is more to this

    • i was thinking the same thing,  it brings a whole new meaning to that.   just think of the services people can sell on ebay now.  skype time.

    • skype+Microsoft= Video chat on android. How well did the skype video chat work on some android phones before Microsoft bought Skype? I’ll answer it for you in case you don’t remember. There was no Skype video chat on android before Microsoft bought it. It wasn’t until after that Skype started updating the app and adding video chat to a few phones and then slowly increased the amount of phones that support video chat. If 2.2 doesn’t support the front cam with skype I highly doubt its Microsofts fault or Skypes fault. Sounds more like the manufacturer of the phones fault. I’m glad Microsoft bought Skype because they are at least doing their job and giving most of the customers what they want which is video chat. If you own a phone with 2.2 then just root it and install a gingerbread rom. I rooted my thunderbolt within 2 hours without a single problem. and installed a gingerbread rom in about 30 minutes and video chat is working

  • its works on droid x (Kind of)   you have to go into settings and turn on video calls,  i can see video, but they can not see any video from droid x.

  • The reason it is 2.3 is because Android did not support front facing cameras until 2.3.  Before that the manufactures had to write their own code to get it to work.  It would be a lot of work for skype to get their video to work with each manufactures own code for the FFC.  So instead they just support 2.3.

    • lol i was just about to ask if it worked on any of the ROMs out for the Thunderbolt

    • it works on mine and works perfectly. just root the phone and install a gingerbread rom. its easy

  • I know it says HTC incredible s is supported but will it work with a Droid incredible 2 running 2.3.3?

  • I would like to point out that this just gives I-diots more ammo, thanks largely in part to the fracturing of the OS and the failure for these moron manufactures to standardize. Don’t get me wrong i hates I-zealots, but we as a community should take a unified stand against this. If all current devices were launched on 2.3 we wouldn’t have this problem. 

    • There is no fracturing any more than there ever has been, get a grip.  Want standardization?  Get an iPhone or WP7 device.  I don’t want standardization because in order to have that all the manufacturers would have to use the same hardware and Google would have to stop releasing updates.

  • Jeez u people are unbelievable u bitch and cry cuz u don’t have skype then it comes and now u bitch more get over it if skype was that big of an issue for u then buy a phone that has a working skype on it

    • i agree. i want to like this comment more then once but cant. and most of these people are bitching that front cam doesnt work on their phone with skype and they are blaming skype even though it’s their manufacturers fault and their carriers fault for not releasing 2.3. i just rooted and running a 2.3.4 rom on my thunderbolt so i’m not complaining. i love the update

      • Wrong.  The front facing camera works fine in 2.2 if you use Tango.  This is just a bs excuse from Skype.

  • CCan’t even update it on my thunderbolt Smh once again another day with this Damn phone HTC VIGOR hurry up

    • can’t update skype so you will switch phones? maybe a smartphone isn’t right for you? I don’t think you are smart enough to operate a smartphone if you can’t figure out how to update an app. Try going back to flip phones. You will probably be more happy but I somehow doubt that.

  • Ughhh Droid3 needs support……but more importantly, WHERE IS THE NEW GOOGLE TALK FOR 2.3.4!??!

    • There is an installer app you can grab from XDA im using it on my rooted Galaxy 7 tab 

    • It works on th 7inch provided you dont have the Verizon one (2.2), or if you do have it you put a custom/sprints rom on it

  • It’s really funny that the DROID Charge is on that list, because it wont even be receiving Gingerbread. The Charge is going straight to Ice Cream.

  • It’s really funny that the DROID Charge is on that list, because it wont even be receiving Gingerbread. The Charge is going straight to Ice Cream.

  • if you guys can download google talk that supports video. it works on my OG Droid perfectly. I couldn’t believe Skype released their app with no video a while back. So I tried google talk. it works pretty well.

  • Totally useless only works with rear facing camera on my Charge. Can’t change anything settings to make it front facing either.

    • Yeah, doesn’t work on Inc2. Won’t let you video chat. The patched APK from xda works though.

  • Will this work with the thunderbolts ff camera? It data somewhere that phones running froyo can only use the rear camera.

      • except of course that the leaked version from like 2 months ago works fine with the Thunderbolt FF camera (although it most likely was modified explicitly for the TB by someone at XDA and Skype wants one model for all devices, so is waiting for the standardized FF API in 2.3).

        • Can you or someone cite which version? I tried to go back and get it after the last update (stock T-Bolt) broke it…when I got a version to take…it only gives me audio…when I goto video it FCloses. Probably time to root it I guess…

      • I had the Thunderbolt for a few months. Video chat with the front fact camera worked fine on the Yahoo Messenger app with the available Video plugin. So if the Tbolt can make use of the FFC on 2.2 with Yahoo, that means that it is possible and not a hard limit of the OS.

        The stupid thing is my Incredible2  does not work with the Yahoo app (apparentlly isn’t supported), on either 2.2 or 2.3. So to me this means that this falls on Skype.

    • If Skype is important to someone all you have to do is root and install Gingerbread.

    • Yea, they shouldn’t say Skype w/ Video now supports TB when it does NOT. It should not be on the list…

  • Yeah, but the Thunderbolt and the Charge need Gingerbread to use the FFC, right? My Charge on GB works with it, but others do not. Come on, Skype.

    Oh, and can someone with a Droid 3 tell me if Skype works with their FFC?

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