The Death of the Video-Phone, random question Options

[Naysayer]

So, in a lot of SR-fiction, we got the wonderful video-phone, because it's just so cool to watch the guy you're talking to suddenly turn into a dragon, or have a stone-cold yakuza-oyabun glare at you before terminating the connection without moving a muscle.
It worked, because everyones' idea of a vid-phone was this kinda 80s-ish actual piece of furniture. You could sit or stand in front of it and throw the occasional chair at the screen.
Now, in SR4, all telephones apparently have been replaced by tiny whatchamajinx the size of a matchbox that you can have sewn into the fabric of your panites.
Still, from what I've seen, the idea of a video-connection to your conversation-partner seems to permeate.
The question now is, how do people do it?
Must we expect everyone to walk around with a tiny webcam that they point at their mug when making a call, at army length, myspace-style?
Does everybody nowadays only talk to each others' fully 3d-rendered animated 32nd-Life-avatars?

Maybe you should think about that the next time you call up your fixer, and the GM tells you that "the disgruntled face of your fixer blinks into existence on your AR-display."

Probably, you shouldn't...