Calling with mobile video has not really taken off, but a company called Saygus plans to release the VPhone V1, a video transmitting and receiving phone that runs on Android and will be available from Verizon.

Of course, the video transmission has to work with another VPhone, but perhaps it will be compatible with phones of the future. As it is, it has a 5 Megapixel camera, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, and 3.5-inch touchscreen. It should have four hours of video chatting, and seven hours of talk time.

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Who says you need the assistance of high-end and costly video equipment to make video communications work? Apparently that was all yesterday’s news. But today, thanks to technology and continuous development, you can experience and enjoy the fruits of new services courtesy of Vyopta, a premier video and unified communication solutions company.

Similar to mobile phone plans, the Vyopta Video Network service is available to subscribers at affordable monthly rates. Vyopta’s subscription-based approach enables customers to distribute many of the costs associated with visual communication solutions over many months. In addition, Vyopta offers a financing option to acquire video endpoints — such as conference room, desktop, PC and mobile systems — that are activated on the Vyopta Video Network.

The setup and activation process of a video endpoint on Vyopta’s Video Network service is simple. While some competing service providers require the provision of dedicated network solutions which can take up to 60 days, Vyopta’s services professionals can have a video endpoint system activated and connected within one business day. Once activated each video endpoint system is assigned a unique video “phone number,” making dialing a video call as easy as a phone call.

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Don’t get too excited, the phone you see above is, unfortunately, just a concept. A very cool concept at that.

Other than GPS, the thing that really makes this phone unique is the fact that you can press a button on the side and the phone turns into a car video camera. Sleek, yet useful.

Don’t expect to see the BMW Video Phone phone anytime soon, if ever. But we can dream, can’t we?
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