Samsung SGH-E316 / SGH-E317
E317 No Video Camera?
While lookin on the samsung website, i played around with the demo and found that it didnt have the record video option. If anyone has the e317 please tell me if this jis true.
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That blows 👿 Not that a video camera matters, but it would be nice to have. That isnt what makes me mad, the fact that t-mobile and at&t got them and cingular didnt. Can anyone tell me why they did this?
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what do you mean? cingular and attws got them. I'm testing one out with cingular right now.
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I was told by my Samsung representative that Cingular disabled the use of the Video recording for their veersion of this phone. I suppose it may have something to do with their network not being able to handle video yet.
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Actually, Cingular's network can handle video. Nokias can do video MMS on Cingular's network just fine.
I asked a Cingular spokesperson about this a few days ago. She mentioned that Samsungs often have very limited (both small and partitioned) memory, which limits the usefulness of features like video capture. I can confirm that - it's a problem with Samsungs.
So what probably happened was that Cingular asked to have the feature disabled, instead of releasing a phone with a feature that was near-useless (crippled) in their eye. That was her guess - she wasn't specifically familiar with the E317 situation.
I have another guess - it's possible that the E31x series uses an oddball video format. I know that most GSM phones encode...
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I asked a Cingular spokesperson about this a few days ago. She mentioned that Samsungs often have very limited (both small and partitioned) memory, which limits the usefulness of features like video capture. I can confirm that - it's a problem with Samsungs.
So what probably happened was that Cingular asked to have the feature disabled, instead of releasing a phone with a feature that was near-useless (crippled) in their eye. That was her guess - she wasn't specifically familiar with the E317 situation.
I have another guess - it's possible that the E31x series uses an oddball video format. I know that most GSM phones encode...
(continues)
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