AT&T Video Share

AT&T serves up video smooth enough for chats on the go. But getting your friends to pay for it may pose a challenge.

Lets you beam live video between AT&T phones. Works well.

Expensive. Works only in some cities, with some phones. No two-way video calling.

AT&T's live video-sharing service works well, but unfortunately, it's way too expensive for heavy use.

The future of video phone calls has arrived, or so AT&T would have you believe. Even though the idea of video phones has been around for awhile, it hasn't quite caught on with the general public. AT&T aims to change that with its new mobile video-calling

AT&T Video Share is a video-calling service that lets you stream live video to your friends. With 3G, performance was quite good, with barely a second of delay in video transmission. You can adjust the brightness, mute the sound, turn the speakerphone on

AT&T Video Share only supports one-way video streaming at the moment, and the video quality is limited to the capabilities of your phone. It only works with certain 3G phones, and will only work when both phones are connected to a 3G network. Both phones

While we love the idea of video calling, the limitations of AT&T's Video Share prevent us from calling it a must-have service. That said, it has plenty of potential.