Monday 6 September 2010

132 years of the Videophone

Amplify’d from technologizer.com

132 Years of the Videophone: From Futuristic Fantasy to Flops to FaceTime

Last week, Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4 with FaceTime video calling capabilities brought the videophone back to the forefront of the media’s attention.  Steve Jobs’ keynote made it sound like FaceTime will bring video phone calls to consumers for the first time. But the idea of a two-way communications device that transmits pictures as well as sound is as old as the phone itself.

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