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Video Calling in Neo V...

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:09:08 GMT

Recently I bought Xperia Neo V.. I was very dissapointed after knowing that it does,nt support video calls.. Even Samsung Wave with Bada OS suppports video calling. But very surprised that my phone does'nt support the same. Please let me know if there is any software update for the support of video calls provided by SE.. It would be very helpful for all SE customers.

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Jake-SonyXperia — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:40:54 GMT

Unfortunately there is no Video calling application that we supply, I can only advise that you use the Android Market to find such applications.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:41:57 GMT

That was a silly reply.. I know that we can find such applications in Android market. But the other phone should also support the same application moreover it consumes data usage. I just want to make a point that how SE missed such basic function. I was suggesting if any software upgrade is provided it would be helpful.

My freinds suggested Samsung but being a hard core fan of Sony I bought this..

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

mustang2011 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:42:44 GMT

I also own Neo V and have used video calling.You can download skype from Android market (it's free) and create an account, then you can use it (other phone should also have the same options).

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:05:09 GMT

I have paid 18000Rs for this phone and still I do not have video calling facility. Even micromax A70 (6000Rs) phone have this feature. 1 year back I switched to samsung and because of Neo V I came back to Sony Ericsson but with this experience I will never come back to sony in future. Learn something from Samsung that how to develope a phone and include this feature in this and future phones.

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:09:39 GMT

android doesn't this, samsung made an add on to their android phones (galaxy SI and SII) not even IOs does this

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:18:28 GMT

If Samsung can add something better for their customer then, why can't Sony Ericsson does?

Don't take examples of the bad things to be better always follow the best in class technology.

IOs have many more good thing which nobody have.

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:23:06 GMT

IOs have many more good things which nobody have? such as?

I do agree on the first part that SE should not just copy but improve this features, in some countries video calls over 3G seem to be extremely popular instead of using a data plan (skype, yahoo, tango, gtalk, etc)

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:38:27 GMT

you will find that the iphone has better selection of high quality games more impressive graphics such as infinity Blade and Shadowgun. You will also find that apps either iphone first(such as Netflixs) or exclusively (such as Instagram) and just look more polished(Facebook)

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:56:27 GMT

I disagree with the graphics, if you compare the graphics between an iphone and a high end Android there's no match, there are certain games that are release first on ios than android but the same goes for android gets some apps and games before they hit ios. and now since Android moved to 1st place worldwide developers are releasing for both operating systems at the same time, and soon it will be android first then ios. regarding facebook, I don't see how it's better on ios, it's quite the same. if you can share few features that you think are better regarding fb on iphone vs fb on android, please share.

I'm not saying that this phone Neo or Neo V its bad, but it is NOT a high end phone it's a midrange phone.

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:26:12 GMT

I am surprised The neo v has the same software as the neo just download skype but firat you have to set up an email account with Google you can do that from your computer once done set that email address into google on the phone. then go into market and download skype. Just a point to mention Skype only have developed software for 4 phones all the others may do skype but with problems could be a video problem or sound. the xperia neo is one on the list that is why I bought it and I was very impressed with the end result video talked with a friend in Rio de Janeiro from UK for 2 hours and not one problem "very impressed" Just one point I went through 4 phones and 3 tablets before I used the xperia neo

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:15:57 GMT

3G video calling is not supported in Android right now but android Icecream sandwich will support. For that the handset shud also support 3G video calling. I have heard that neo V will get Android ICS update. So will we be able to make video call in Neo V with android ICS atleast ??

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

uliwooly-wooly — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:19:02 GMT

who said that? Android does NOT support video calling over 3G the only phones that do are Samsung Galaxy SI and SII

Who told you that Android 4.0 will?

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:15:26 GMT

I have been browsing to many forums asking this questions of video calling on UMTS/3G. and I found that only Samsung has done that till now on android platform. SE really sucks in this area. I felt that since this phone is having front camera it will support video calling over UMTS but since it have made for the region where there is is more stress on 3g data plan like US and other countries it supports video through Gtalk and skype. But the big question is when samsung is able to do it why not Sony.

SE please wake up. Also Google is not giving this feature in android where as symbion was having this from very ling time, the only reason I see for this is Google was to promote Gtalk and keeping this issue open for long time. Here is the link::::::

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2664#c1

Also if any one is interested i think this is the development going on in this regards

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902323

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Uliwooly — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:45:18 GMT

you should consider the samsung galaxy SI since its the only phone that is capable of this, no other android can.

and the new Xperias don't have this option not even the new Samsungs

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:08:38 GMT

Yes i have the same phone(Sl i9003) but i have gifted this phone(Neo V) to my brother since he is SE lover. I presumed that since the Neo V has a front cam so it will support the video call and we can do video call as bsnl is providing cheap video call on UMTS. But my 17K gone in drain i think as neo v dont support video tephony..

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Uliwooly — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:11:40 GMT

I hardly doubt any other android phones will support this besides the galaxy SI since HD video calls are the new trend

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:04:00 GMT

Well in that regard i would like to mention that all samsung android phones with front end camera( s, sl, s2, R) the have native video calling dialer which uses UMTS for video calling.

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:06:59 GMT

Very bad idea... under UMTS video calling other phone should not have a skype... or may have android or any other OS, or it may be a java phone... having a video calling using UMTS thus SE should do a work around on this.

Re: Video Calling in Neo V...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:05:29 GMT

please i have moved from samsung to sony ericson , i tought that since the camers is infront that one would be able to make video calls is there some way you can add this. i have been using samsung and for the past six years and they had video calling since that time.