These Apps Will Make You Think Twice About Using FaceTime On Your iPhone Ever Again (AAPL)

Apple's videochat app FaceTime is reminiscient of that famous H.G. Wells-Jetsons kind of future that we were promised as kids. But it's certainly not the only videochat solution out there, and it's hardly the first.

As simple as it may be to use, it has its limitations. Most notably, it can only be used over wifi and it can't connect to Android devices.

There are third party apps out there that solve these problems quite elegantly. Here are our favorites.

ooVoo

Simply put, ooVoo rocks. This app supports video calling over wifi and 3G, and it has no trouble communicating with Android devices. The potential killer feature here is that it also allows for 6-way video chat.

If your friends don't have a supported mobile device, they can communicate with you through their web browser with a webcam.

Price: free

Skype

Skype has permeated the communication world, and a relatively recent update to its iOS app enabled video chat over 3G to anyone else running Skype (desktop users included).

The app also boasts near-CD quality audio.

Price: free

Tango

Tango offers free video calls over 3G and wifi from an iOS device to any other mobile device running the app as well. It's also been continually praised for its ease of use.

Price: free

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These Apps Will Make You Think Twice About Using FaceTime On Your iPhone Ever Again (AAPL)

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Report: Nearly Twice As Many Androids Shipped Last Quarter As iPhones

In a report that is raising eyebrows this morning, UK-based market research firm Canalys estimates that total shipments of Android phones in the U.S. during the third quarter were nearly twice as large as iPhone shipments. Out of 20.9 million smartphones shipped in the U.S., about 44 percent, or 9.1 million, are running the Android OS. Apple, shipped an estimated 5.5 million phones, or 26 percent of the total. Apple ships only one phone, the iPhone. And it became the single largest smartphone in the U.S., surpassing all Blackberry phones combined (with RIM shipping an estimated 5.1 million phones, or 24 percent). Apple's market share in the U.S. jumped 4.5 percent from the second quarter, but the collective share of all the Android handsets now on the market jumped by nearly 10 percent (from 34 percent).

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