On OoVoo, to search for friends, you can sync your Facebook, Twitter, or email accounts. Skype also can import contacts from mail servers, your phone’s contact lists, Facebook and instant messages, as well as being able to use Skype with Facebook friends, or send IMs and text messages to contact’s cell phones. For Skype premium, screen-sharing, group video calls, no ads, live customer support and unlimited calls to one country of your choice are offered. OoVoo allows screen-sharing with both their versions, but offers priority support, no ads, and 1000 minutes of video storage for Premium users.
OOVOO USER PC
Also, you can only send video messages with the PC version as per their plans page.) Skype, however, doesn’t offer much less for Mac users than it does with Windows-users (no emoticons, no Facebook integration without using beta version 5.4). “Free 12-way video chat” on Windows page as opposed to “Free group video chat” on Mac’s page, because Mac users can only see 6 people at a time while only hearing the other 6. OoVoo is also available for your computer, mobile phone, or tablet, but, in comparing their Windows version with their Mac version, it’s indicated that not all features are available for Mac-users.
Skype-to-Skype calling is free, but you can call anywhere in the world on Skype and pay from 1.09 cents a minute (via credit or subscription). I figure, since Skype has been around longer, it’s got the edge there, with A LOT more technology available.
OOVOO USER TV
For TVs, you can purchase a Skype-ready television, use your Bluray player with a webcam, or your current TV with a TV cam.
OoVoo also has a web video chat feature which allows you to embed video onto your blog, website or social networking site. Skype, however, has WiFi capability, allowing you to get online anywhere there’s a hotspot using Skype credits, paying only what you use. I think that’s a pretty nifty idea, especially for those who may be on the move, at a public place, friend’s computer, etc., who can’t download the program to a computer they don’t already own, or don’t want to for whatever reason.
One difference between ooVoo and Skype is that ooVoo allows for your friends who have NOT downloaded ooVoo to still be able to talk with you from their web browser with their Web Video Calling feature.
OOVOO USER SOFTWARE
After taking time to play with both programs, here’s what I have to offer on the differences on the great ooVoo vs Skype debate.Īlthough they are both video-conferencing and messaging software products, they are, in fact, two very different animals. After seeing the ooVoo video when it first came out, and noticing its uncanny resemblence to Skype, I wondered what the differences were between the ooVoo vs Skype, particularly being a military wife and needing this service when my soldier travels.
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