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Smartphone Apps Enable Mobile Audio and Video Conferencing

As more and more professionals adopt smartphones and tablet PCs, a huge market for mobile applications have opened up. Apple iPad and iPhone are the two favoured gadgets among professionals, although the popularity of Android enabled tablets and phones are increasing steadily.

Author: Mike Dines

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Manufacturers are adding latest features to these gadgets, with a front-facing camera being one of the requisites in smartphones and tablets. With this and the ability of hand-held devices to transfer large amount of data over an internet connection, it is now a reality to have audio and video call in conference using these mobile devices.

When the Apple iPhone 4 was launched in 2010, it paved the way for video and audio conferencing service on mobile devices, by allowing the masses to converse with each other via the Facetime app. The app enables two iPhones to make video calls over high speed Wi-Fi connection, with the call clarity and video resolution par excellence. Eventually, the market for this app expanded and Apple included Macbooks and iPod Touch on the list of gadgets that support it, thereby providing audio video conferencing solution to more even more Apple customers.

There are many professionals in Hong Kong who use Android-based devices, like Samsung Galaxy and HTC Incredible S, instead of iPhone 4. After seeing the application and success of Apple's video, audio and web conferencing app, Google launched video chat on Honeycomb tablets. Its biggest advantage is that it runs on Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G connections, a feat that is not matched by its Apple counterpart. This feature is already available on LG Optimus Pad, Asus Eee Pad MeMo and Transformer, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom. Google is continuously working towards making video and audio conferencing service available on the latest and upcoming versions of Android.

Seeing that these apps were OS specific and Apple users could not interact with Android users on their respective devices, a need of inter-OS video and audio web conference solution arose. This inspired the development of Fring, an app that operates on Apple, Android and Nokia phones with equal ease. It allows 3G to 3G, Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi and 3G to Wi-Fi audio video conferencing. The voice and video quality is quite good; although Wi-Fi connections deliver better quality than 3G due to greater bandwidth. Using this app on a tablet PC or Smartphone, users can enjoy video, audio and web conferencing with a single person or a group of individuals.

This platform is just like Skype, aimed at providing video and audio web conference services to the masses. However, business professionals will require a mobile solution that delivers the same features at low costs, without any call drops or lags. Such reliable mobile solution is growing at a fast rate as technological advancements continue to develop at a neck-breaking pace.

As this technology is being perfected, it will cater to business professionals' need of making audio and video calls, sending text messages, multimedia messages and emails from the same platform. Companies like PCCW Mobile, 3 Mobile and SmarTone-Vodafone are expected to provide customised high speed data transfer plans to corporate firms. These data plans will enable seamless voice and video calls with high resolution, excellent sound clarity and no lag on hand-held gadgets.

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Mike Dines is an experienced writer having more than 10 years of experience in writing articles on various topics such as call in conference, web conferencing Solutions and audio video conferencing etc.

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Smartphone Apps Enable Mobile Audio and Video Conferencing