Looks like Yahoo is about to challenge Apple for the mobile video calling crown, with plans to brings video chat to iPhones and Android-based phones via its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service.

David Katzn (VP of Mobile for Yahoo’s Americas region) let it slip that the company will soon be offering mobile app versions of Yahoo Messenger with built-in video calling capabilities.

The free app, will be available for both iPhone and Android phones and will allow smartphone users to not only conduct video calls with each other, but with anyone that currently uses Yahoo Messenger for video calls on their PCs.  This has huge potential, as Yahoo claims to have 81 million users of Messenger worldwide.

And unlike FaceTime, Yahoo’s mobile Messenger video calling app will work not only over a WiFi connection, but over a carrier’s standard wireless network.

Makes me wonder if/when we’ll see Google Chat available on phones.  Either way, all of this competition is great for the end-users!

 

Tags: chat, Video, Yahoo

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