Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual

Video Chat

When you invite someone to a video chat and she accepts, or if she invites you and you accept, your screen comes to life. Most of the screen gets taken up by the live video of the person with whom you’re chatting. Down at the bottom right, you can see a snapshot-sized video feed of yourself—this is a smaller version of what your chat friend is seeing. You see a red light at the top of the Tab, telling you that your video is being captured live. As for chatting, it’s as easy as it gets. Talk. Gesticulate. Emote. Wave your hands if you want. Your friend sees and hears everything you say and do. And you see everything she says and does.

Tip

When you video chat, you can also receive and send text messages. The messages are displayed at the bottom of your screen. See Using Video Chat Options for details on how to send a text message during video chat.

Are you Ready for Your Closeup?

If you look at the small video window that shows you, you see a set of controls just above it—a slider bracketed by two hands. This slider controls whether the video should be a closeup of you, and also whether the video frame should be locked or move as the Tab moves. The changes you make here are reflected not just in what you see in the snapshot, but in what your chat friend sees—remember, whatever is in that snapshot is what he sees.

Tip

When video chatting, don’t look down at your little image in ...