Has practical "videophone" technology finally arrived? (3G, iPhone, Android)

[mateo45]

The IPhone and its next-gen OS apparently will boast Video Chat capability built into the code, and HTC's latest Android phone, the EVO 4G (the newest competitor to the IPhone), also boasts 2 cameras (one of them front-facing), to allow for Video Chat.

Does this mean that the sci-fi idea of practical & common "video phones" has finally "arrived", albeit on cellphones, and will folks actually use it? And what (if any) are the implications.... live "IPorn", "videochatting while driving", remote medical diagnosis, or......?

[davidguevara]

Well i have to say that the Iphone 4th generation sucks when they did their video calling maybe its not apple maybe its AT&T that blocked the video chatting to wifi only so not to waste their precious megabytes but with the HTC EVO you can video chat using 3G/4G and wifi freedom is blessed and let the roaming begin

[Sayantsi]

The technology is here, its just not built out in the USA. AT&T for one can't support it because the infra isn't in place to handle it at the national scale.