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Apple iPhone users have been waiting a long time for this, and just in time to call up your best friend on New Year's Eve and communicate via video instead of just voice, Skype has delivered video calling to the iPhone. Before now, Skype was only useful for VoIP calling and messaging. Skype video calling is a feature, but it was reserved for the desktop client and select televisions. Now, video calling is where it should be: right beside FaceTime. What's crazy is that somehow Skype has been able to launch this feature over both Wi-Fi and 3G. Other similar apps have usually launched with support for Wi-Fi only, and even Apple's own FaceTime is restricted to use over Wi-Fi.Skype has stated that video calling made up 40% of all Skype-to-Skype minutes during the first 6 months of 2010, so it's pretty clear that there's a significant demand for this on the mobile side. Early reports have found that 3G video chatting is spotty, while Wi-Fi video chatting seems pretty solid. The app is free, so why not give it a try and see for yourself?