Videophones

English: Videophone Wikipedia article

NOTE:

for historical reference, this webpage also includes 20th Century still-image transmission devices, which were a less functional form of conventional videophones (and which are not to be confused with today's Video-enabled UMTS mobile phones, or camera-cellphones);
there are also other separate media repository articles and categories for:

- Videoconferencing Systems and Components (for one-to-many and many-to-many conference calls using a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), or its equivalent, unlike Videophones which are meant for one-to-one calls without an MCU)
- Webcams (low-cost device meant for use with a computer)
- Telepresence (high-end videoconferencing system using state-of-the-art technologies resulting in high definition video and audio)
- Video-enabled UMTS mobile phones (mobile and cellphones with videocalling capablilities)
- Video-enabled satellite phones (satellite phone systems meant for videocalls)

Videophones - Contemporary (since 2000)

Videophone in a public space in France.
Motorola Ojo Videophone 900, 2005.
Nortel IP Video Phone 1535, February 2008.
Deutsche Telekom T-View 100 ISDN type videophone meant for home offices and small businesses. Image March 2007.
UMTS Video call between Sweden and Singapore, Sony Ericsson K800 over a UMTS mobile network, Sep 2007.
Tandberg E20 Videophone
Tandberg E20 Videophone featuring Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
Russian President Medvedev using a Tandberg Tactical MXP, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Ruslan Tsalikov during an emergency videoconference, November 2009
Russian President Medvedev using a Tandberg Tactical MXP, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Ruslan Tsalikov during an emergency videoconference, November 2009

The French Matra videophone (1970)
Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander using an Ericsson videophone to speak with Lennart Hyland, a popular TV show host (1969)
The Alcatel Visionis (1989)

1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', with its control pad nested within its circular base support.
(Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone'. Note audio speaker that can almost be seen through the upper R.H. corner grill.
(Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', with control pad nested within circular support base.
(Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
Close up view of camera and its reflector mirror on a 1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', for use with documents placed at the base.
(Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
Right side view of AT&T Picturephone Mod II with cover removed exposing one of several internal PCBs.
(Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II Control Pad (1972-73), close-up view.
(Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)

Video telephony in the year 2000, as imagined in 1910. From a French postcard by Villemard, 1910. Paris, BNF, Estampes.
Telephonoscope videophone-television concept, a forecast for 1879, in the 9th December 1878 issue of Punch Magazine.
Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone 1914

Close up view of camera and its reflector mirror on a 1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', for use with documents placed at the base.
(Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II of 1972-73, view showing serial number plate on the top surface
(Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
Right side view of AT&T Picturephone Mod II with cover removed exposing one of several internal PCBs.
(Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II Control Pad (1972-73), close-up view.
(Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II of 1972-73, exposed upper-rear view, with its unit cover removed.
(Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II of 1972-73, left side view with cover removed exposing some of its inner components.
(Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)

Video telephony in the year 2000, as imagined in 1910. From a French postcard by Villemard, 1910. Paris, BNF, Estampes.
Telephonoscope videophone-television concept, a forecast for 1879, in the 9th December 1878 issue of Punch Magazine.