Skype video calling finally to arrive iPhones and latest iPod Touch

Facetime will soon finally meet its match. Well, it looks like Skype may finally have caught up with everyone else. A recently published Skype info support page has started providing instructions on how to make video calls from your iOS device, even though regular Skype users amongst you will already know that that is not currently a supported feature on the Skype app.

Apparently, Skype video calling will be available on both WiFi and 3G connection, no doubt, the quality of your call will be dependent on how fast your connection is. More importantly, users would be able to video chat with other Skype users on Mac OS X, PC and of course other iOS devices – a potential which Skype has always had but not yet fully achieved.

To add to this, Skype will also be on a panel at this year’s CES called “Video Calling Gets Ready for Primetime” and will be making “series of video-related announcements.”

Gadget today | The Apple iPad – mobile or computer?

gadget today | More like a computer or a phone? And does it matter?

We suspect the 95 per cent of the tablet market who have chosen the Apple iPad as their slate of choice may not care an awful lot, but Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg inadvertently sparked an interesting debate about the iPad at a press conference yesterday.

While announcing the updated Facebook iOS and Android apps, Zuckerberg was asked about whether a dedicated iPad app was on the way – given that the event had been labelled as a “mobile event”. However, Zuckerberg dismissed the question shortly: “The iPad is not mobile. Next question.”

It sparked a bit of a debate, with Zuckerberg seemingly all but alone in his opinion, but he did go on to clarify: “I didn’t mean to be rude towards Apple. We all love Apple products here, and we want to work with them and all that. I just want to keep the event focused on what we’re doing today.

“The iPad is not a mobile platform in the same way a phone is.”

So what about you? Do you agree with Zuckerberg that the iPad is a different class of device to a phone, or does the fact that it shares the same iOS platform as the iPhone mean it should be treated as the same kind of gadget? Does it even matter? Let us know in the comments below…