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iChatr: Apple's Facetime gets its own Chatroulette clone for talking to strangers
Remember Chatroulette, the faddish video chat service that lets you talk to random strangers? Well, it's got a new best friend: Apple's FaceTime on iPhone 4. Thanks to a free app called iChatr, iPhone 4 owners can FaceTime with other random iPhone 4 owners. Like FaceTime itself, iChatr requires you to be connected to a Wi-FI network.There's no logging in with iChatr, you just jump straight to a split-screen display with your camera on top and your chat partner's camera on the bottom. Don't be alarmed when you don't see Chatroulette's familiar "next" button on iChatr. You can still "next" people, you just have to swipe over their image at the bottom of the screen.
As for the question everyone wants answered: no, there are reportedly not as many gross naked men on iChatr as there are on Chatroulette. I guess folks who can afford an iPhone 4 and the service contract that comes with it can also afford pants. Go figure.
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Subscribe to commentskojo87Jul 14th 2010 1:48PM
less naked men? give it time.
MethodicJonJul 14th 2010 2:42PM
Whoever wrote this must have NOT used the application or used it when all the perverts and sex addicts were offline getting electrolytes.
I sadly saw way to much, way to often and have deleted until the app developer adds in some sort of blocking method (which would be easy to do).
See my comments here:
http://twitter.com/methodicjon/status/18450288029
JustinJul 14th 2010 3:51PM
Could you please update this article to stop referring to this as FaceTime? This is simply an app that uses the front facing camera. Saying iChatr is a great use of FaceTime is like saying Twitter is a great use of Facebook; they're related but separate things.
Damien BenoitJul 14th 2010 5:08PM
Actually, I used it a few times, and most of the time is some dude jerking off! So its already full of perverts. I mean really, I am a pervert just like the next man, but not that desperate!
joeJul 16th 2010 4:22AM
You'll find a good list of chatroulette clones in
www.thatroulette.com/clones.html
DJJul 17th 2010 3:51PM
$200 isn't bad. I remember I paid over 300 for a razr on contract when they first came out. That was a great time in history where no one could afford a phone, and when you had a nice phone everyone else didn't have it like everyone does apple products ;-)