Just today, my friends at Cheddar TV broke the news about Facebook's launch of a new
video chat device called -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Early plans
call for the standalone speaker to sell in the low $ 100 range, undercutting the competition, while the technologically more complex
video chat device would cost a few hundred dollars, one of the people said.
Late Monday, the cloud giant announced Chime, cloud - based software designed to let business customers make voice or
video calls, converse in
chat rooms, and hold web conferences from their mobile or desktop
devices..
The
device, which Mr. i.am
calls a work of «fashionology» (that's fashion and technology) can send and receive phone
calls, emails and text messages, has a personal assistant feature, a fitness component and can access maps, take pictures, hold
video chats and even has space for music files.
If you want to
video chat you'll have to be sure that your intended contact has an Echo
device with a screen — an Echo Show or Echo Spot — or you'll only be able to make voice
calls.
News site Cheddar claims that Facebook is working on a
video -
chat device called Portal which will compete directly with
devices like Amazon's Echo Show.
For the past few months, reports have claimed that Facebook is developing a
video chat device possibly
called Portal or Aloha.
The
device, which is also believed to be
called Portal, features a touchscreen display that would users to watch
videos and initiate
video chat with friends.
The dedicated
video chat device, sources say, will come with a wide angle camera lens, and is being made to help people on a
video call feel like they're in the same room.