Best video chat app?

[tyrelian]

My brother in law just got his evo and loves it. We chatted over qik and it was OK over 3g, any opinions on the vchat apps you use?

 

[dwaynewilliams#WN]

I use Qik. But others have used Fring or Yahoo!

 

[ibbeach0]

I cannot suggest any but have looked at a few of them. I cant use them because everyone I have as a contact is not up to speed with new phones.

 

[JamesKBoyd]

I use Tango. Free in the Android Market. Better than Qik.

 

[drjb74]

I also use Tango. Updates have made it much better than Qik or Fring, in my opinion. Works great with my EVO and wife's EPIC.

 

[atom ant22]

i use tango and qik tango a bit more

 

[etnpnys]

My wife now has an EVO also, and we tried QIK - why did one of us have full transmission, but the other one had to hold down a button to transmit the audio? That's messed up.

So we tried Fring - works really really well for the first 30 seconds - and then it always seems to report that the network is horrible and it disconnects. Wtf? We were both on my FIOS WiFi at home!

I have also used Yahoo to chat with a coworker once when we were both at our houses on WiFi networks - he was on an iPhone 4 and it worked absolutely flawlessly.

I'm open to trying others; maybe we'll try out Tango next.

 

[westhillsat]

I like Tango. Have used Qik and Fring, but prefer Tango currently.

 

[Joescan09]

We need skype to get up to speed with android.

 

[etnpnys]

We need skype to get up to speed with android.

I completely agree. It's really quite appalling that we don't have it yet with everybody raising such a stink.

 

[monkeyzero]

I have been unsuccessful in finding one that works "cross platform" so to speak. Mine and my wife's family live in florida and it would be nice for my 5 year old to vid chat with nana and pop pop on occasion. Problem is, they are all on iphones and the wife and I are on Epic and EVO respectively.

How is yahoo? Easy to use? Can a 70 year old be walked through it over the phone? Lol. Sadly I'm serious. My in-laws call me at least once a day with email or pic saving issues...

 

[tyrelian]

We need skype to get up to speed with android.

Definitely

 

[tyrelian]

I cannot suggest any but have looked at a few of them. I cant use them because everyone I have as a contact is not up to speed with new phones.

ditto

 

[mr.seth.price]

best bet I have found is Tango. I've tried qik and just didn't like it.

 

[dwaynewilliams#WN]

I tried using Qik with a friend and her phone wouldn't ring. I think that we are doing something wrong but it seems that the app on her phone isn't working properly.

UPDATE. I figured out that I needed to make my contacts friends first before I call. I also had my previous cell number attached to my account. All is good now.

 

[etnpnys]

I have been unsuccessful in finding one that works "cross platform" so to speak. Mine and my wife's family live in florida and it would be nice for my 5 year old to vid chat with nana and pop pop on occasion. Problem is, they are all on iphones and the wife and I are on Epic and EVO respectively.

How is yahoo? Easy to use? Can a 70 year old be walked through it over the phone? Lol. Sadly I'm serious. My in-laws call me at least once a day with email or pic saving issues...

I know exactly what you're talking about - I used to train people on PC usage all the time. Are your parents going to be using the desktop version? It's pretty simple - you launch the app, sign in and it shows you a list of your contacts - you double-click the one you want to talk to and then click on the button that looks like a video camera. From the phone, it's about the same but phone-ified.

I think Yahoo might be the best cross-platform option, but it's not video CALLING per se - it's video CHATTING. Difference being that everybody already has to be signed in with the app open to use Yahoo. But with Qik, Fring, Tango - they all basically sign you in on your phone as soon as it turns on, so when somebody wants to vid chat with you it's more like receiving a phone call.

WHERE THE EFF IS GOOGLE'S SOLUTION!? I was super impressed with GTalk's ability to do all of this easily, but they don't have it on our phones yet.

 

[Flip]

I use oovoo n tango they're the 2 best for the evo imo

 

[Joescan09]

I'm going to try out Tango tonight and see if it's an improvment over Qik.

 

[JamesKBoyd]

It definitely is.

 

[speedy1]

Tango and Qik so far.