Is there a video chat app worth a damn

[Bperry]

I was really excited about getting the s3 because I gave my wife my old s2. I thought we were going to be able to have seamless video chat dare I say (like facetime) with Google Talk, but it sucks. It is just plain unusable.

I also tried Skype and it seems very rough too. I just want a reliable decent video chat so I can talk to the kids. Are there settings or better apps out there? Why isn't gtalk video working like it should is there a way to troubleshoot it?

Tia

 

[question729]

I was really excited about getting the s3 because I gave my wife my old s2. I thought we were going to be able to have seamless video chat dare I say (like facetime) with Google Talk, but it sucks. It is just plain unusable.

I also tried Skype and it seems very rough too. I just want a reliable decent video chat so I can talk to the kids. Are there settings or better apps out there? Why isn't gtalk video working like it should is there a way to troubleshoot it?

Tia

What's that other one they have floating around? Fring? I've never had a front facing camera before until now, so I've never used any of them before. Never hurts to try it out though.

 

[Devz]

I've never used it, but I keep hearing and seeing people swear by an app call Tango.

 

[shotinthenads]

I've never used it, but I keep hearing and seeing people swear by an app call Tango.

I have Tango and it works better than the others for me.

 

[Alyianna]

You could try Google+ Hangout feature!

 

[question729]

I have Tango and it works better than the others for me.

Actually Tango is the one I was thinking of!

 

[Rush]

Just to let you know that I've moved this thread to the Android Applications section for further responses.

Skype seems to work okay for me. For the record, they still haven't mastered video chat on mobile yet. It's still a work in progress.

 

[davidmanvell]

What is it you don't like about the current chat apps? Google talk, skype and yahoo all work well. Google hangout as well. Load app, click who you want to talk to, dial them and their face pops up. It's about as simple as you can get and the image quality is decent (Pending network speeds and quality of the two people's phones.).

 

[Mr. Lucky]

Tango works great for me on 4g or wifi.

 

[chanchan05]

Not sure in your country, but can't you just video call them? Samsung phones have that by default.

 

[Bperry]

David I wish my experience was just that. I am using Wi-Fi with great connection speed and the video is choppy at best, then it just freezes. I thought it was a phone problem by idk.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

David I wish my experience was just that. I am using Wi-Fi with great connection speed and the video is choppy at best, then it just freezes.

Are you perhaps testing this with both devices connected to the same wifi network? If so, the combined load from both devices' 2x video streaming may be exceeding your local network bandwidth... particularly if there are other connected devices or if the wireless router is also shared with a wired network connection. Though it seems counterintuitive, in a case like this, you may actually get better results if one of the devices was connected to the public network.