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What is the best phone to record calls?

Hi guys,
For me it is indifferent to the platform, while performing well the call recording function. I need this feature for my work.
What phone/OS do you recommend?.
Thx

It's not wise to look at only one single aspects of your need to make decision because you may pay too high a price in the other areas. Anyway if you're really really wanting to only look at this requirement alone, then leave out iPhone because it can only record outgoing call (e.g., with Acrobits Softphone) but not incoming calls. Winmo phones are excellent in this area. Not sure about Android.
Edit: I take it back. I was wrong to say that iPhone can't do it. It can be done with an application by the name of "CallRec.me" mentioned here:
http://forum.tipb.com/iphone-develo...itasking-phone-call-recorder.html#post1568474 It records both incoming and outgoing calls. Be aware of the legal framework of such practice though, but that's out of topic issue here. It's suppose to work not just in US but also outside US. I don't know all the details yet, but hopefully that'll give you a headstart in your investigation.
Cheers.

Thank you very much for your answers.
With any WinMo 6.5 device I can record incoming and outgoing calls? Any device recommendation?

I was using VITO audio note back then. Worked quite well for me. I think it will work on any winmo phone in the market today still.

eaglesteve said:
I was using VITO audio note back then. Worked quite well for me. I think it will work on any winmo phone in the market today still.
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what is your phone?

valianci said:
what is your phone?
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Now I'm using iPhone 3GS. Then, I was using HTC Touch HD.

I have a Palm Centro, and I've been using the app CallRec for years. I believe it was $20, but you can always pirate it if you're cheap. It runs in the background and records every call to a folder on the SD card, named with the phone number, date, etc. Excellent record quality, and it's actually the only reason I haven't upgraded my phone yet. I love having an archive of all my calls, especially when dealing with lying customer-service reps.

I use G1 now...

Does somebody know if the new FroYo firmware will support call recording?

[APP] Skype over 3g is here!

Not sure if this is posted yet.
I didn't make this app nor taking credit for making it. It is the Skype app hacked to work over 3G. Enjoy
http://hotfile.com/dl/74451690/60e5ede/Skype.apk.html

Just saw this on Engadget.
Freakin sweat

But there is no video chat correct? I was able to sign in but I dont see a way to initiate video.

Thats awesome but how did they 'hack' an app?

werxen said:
Thats awesome but how did they 'hack' an app?
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If i am not mistaken, it should of been done by just allowing the permissions to be changed. Meaning that the app was told from the coding that it can only operate over wifi, but they changed that to allow it over any data connection.
Also, i downloaded this. I doubt ill ever use it, but its neat none the less. Tell me when we can do video chat, and ill be all up on that!

werxen said:
Thats awesome but how did they 'hack' an app?
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original skype is over wifi only.
this one can use 3g.

Should I uninstall the previous version before adding this or does it matter?

What's the point? Sprint = free mobile to mobile. Skype = what? free skype to skype maybe?

skype to skype is free all around the globe

Free Skype to Skype around the world and to users on any of its many platforms.

m4rk0358 said:
Should I uninstall the previous version before adding this or does it matter?
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yes uninstall any previous versions.

No video chat?? what a farse this Skype.

T Mac said:
What's the point? Sprint = free mobile to mobile. Skype = what? free skype to skype maybe?
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My wife has family and friends on Taiwan. With Skype, she calls them and chats with them. With this app, she could talk with them from her phone instead of being chained to her desktop.
Although she has a Vibrant, and Galaxy S phones aren't supported for some reason. She'll probably end up using my Evo.

daniel06gt said:
No video chat?? what a farse this Skype.
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It's probably a feature that will get turned on once more smartphones have front facing cameras.

m4rk0358 said:
It's probably a feature that will get turned on once more smartphones have front facing cameras.
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I agree, though Fring used to have it through Skype. And Qik has it. You'd assume there is a huge market demand for it....
Let's hope very soon.

Thank you. Installed.
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great. i have been waiting for this for awhile... THANKS OP!!!!
mirror if anyone doesn't feel like waiting on hotfile..
http://tinyurl.com/skypevo

Is anyone having a problem with the app. I can hear but the other side cannot hear me. What should I do.
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Is there a updated Skype over 3G app? I noticed the market place has some newer wifi only versions.

worthless, no video.

has anyone got tango to work without lagging like crazy

i've been looking for a video chat app for my nexus s and apparently, only Tango supports the front facing camera right now. BOOO Google for not having a stock app for this. however, when i do make a video call to someone else, it's super laggy and clitchy, to the point that it's practically unusable. it keeps telling me that the network speed is too low, but i made a few calls on wifi with at least 7 mb download and 4 mb upload. this can't be the case. Does anyone else have this problem. is there another app that would work with nexus s. Fring has good video quality with no lag, but it doesn't support the front camera yet.

I was amazed at how well tango worked for me. On 3G no less. Though I'm in an hspa+ city so I benefit and get outrageous 3G data speeds.
But for me Tango works better than expected.
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Edit: Just checked from my Nexus S to my Galaxy S (i9000)...both on 3G. Was pretty smooth, actually. Front camera wouldn't work on the SGS, though. Back camera fine.
Same here...WiFi to WiFi and so laggy/choppy it was unusable.
I have to test it on my SGS to see if the lag was from the NS, or from the app in general. I suspect NS issue, since Tango gets a lot of positive talk about it.
This is one area Apple really hit a home run on: iPhone 4 on jailbroken 3G connection and FaceTime to another friend was like he was in the room with me. Awesome.

Moved to Q&A

this just pisses me off. i dropped $580 on this phone cause it was supposed to be the most advanced, but nothing f'n works on it. no new market, no video calls, no 4g, useless nfc, and half the apps don't work cause its 2.3.1. i know it will be fixed as soon as devs get up to date, but still. i love the phone, but it's just a let down a little by google itself.

i just made a call on 3g to another nexus s, and it was still laggy. can anyone verify that they are having these issues. i don't know if it's just the nexus s, or some other reason.

wasya152 said:
i just made a call on 3g to another nexus s, and it was still laggy. can anyone verify that they are having these issues. i don't know if it's just the nexus s, or some other reason.
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Did you see my edit to my previous post where I said that a call from my Nexus S to my Galaxy S i9000 worked just fine? Both phones on 3G (one T-Mo, the other AT&T).

distortedloop said:
Did you see my edit to my previous post where I said that a call from my Nexus S to my Galaxy S i9000 worked just fine? Both phones on 3G (one T-Mo, the other AT&T).
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yes, thank you. i did see it, but i just wanted to know if others had it. it seems that you are the only one that i know that does not have issues. my two friends, both with nexus s, have same issues.

Yeah, you are the only one who's gotten it to not suck. I guess you are lucky. I can't wait for voodoo to finish their app.
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Sorry you guys are having issues, but the app has an average of 4 star ratings and lots of "works great" posts, so I'm hardly the only one who has gotten it working.
Really frustrating for you, I am sure.
Voodoo video app? What's that. I just wish Google would give us video that works across platforms in the gtalk app.

Yeah I'm sure it works fine on OTHER phones, hence a good rating. Anyway oovoo looks good, its in market and has a desktop client too, and has announced upcoming support for ns!
Edit: I said voodoo in the last post which is a donut shop here in Portland. Sigh. Its oovoo I'm talking about.
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Sorry you guys are having issues, but the app has an average of 4 star ratings and lots of "works great" posts, so I'm hardly the only one who has gotten it working.
Really frustrating for you, I am sure.
Voodoo video app? What's that. I just wish Google would give us video that works across platforms in the gtalk app.
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Yeah I'm sure it works fine on OTHER phones, hence a good rating.
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You mean there are other phones besides the NS...? Wow, I had no idea. LOL.
Seriously, of course I was have a senior moment.

very very surprised of how smooth it was on a data network, then i put it to the test on my wireless n router...ooooo its just unbelivable how great it was

The short answer for me is no.
Tried Tango on my Nexus S and my Galaxy S on 3G and wifi.
It's lagging all the time.

Tango lags for me too with a buddy who is on his wifi. He reports that tango works well for him to others (he has a G2). I'm starting to wonder if it is a latency consistency thing on my NS as bandwidth speeds are strong on my internet wifi.
NS
Test: 10274 kbps down 1850 kbps up 20ms ping
Computer
Test: 12110 kbps down 1820 kbps up 14ms ping
ps when is skype launching video chat app for android as they have for iphone.. (jealous!)

If I don't video chat soon I'm going to vommit.
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Pretty sure Qik worked fine for me.

Qik wouldn't recognize my FFC... THAT blows.
Edit: Verified again just to be sure; neither the Qik stand-alone app nor the T-Mobile Qik Video Chat app recognize the FFC on the NS. Regular Qik won't allow the changing of the chosen camera, and T-Mobile's Qik app allows you to change the selection to the FFC, but the on-screen feed never changes from the rear-facing camera. BUMMER.

(q) video call

Anybody can help me how to make video call on my infuse?thx

Qik is only program I found that worked properly with infuse. It worked good doing a video call with an iPhone 4.

There is an app called Clearsea in the market that is free for now that works very well. We use it on IPads for video conferencing to our video conference system in the office. But I think it can also do device to device video calls as well. Just has to be a SIP or H323 compliant device for it to function properly.

when we get gingerbread we can use google talk to make video calls. skype was working on a video chat release for android and was waiting verizon to give the ok until microsoft bought it. i think we will now have to wait until skype is fully working on windows phone 7 for a few months before they even consider releasing it.

Try Tango. They just updated to work with the infuse 4g. Me personally I like tango better they use Push Notification unlike other that have a process running synchronizing every X time killing battery. With tango I could completely shut it down and still get notified.
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ill have to remove my foot from my mouth as it seems the first thing microsoft did with skpe was release video chat for android. its even been hacked to work with galaxy s and galaxy s2 phones with gingerbread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708 prolly would work on our phones too, and is yet another reason we need gingerbread!

**** as if I didn't want gb before. Does skype work device to computer too?

nstong said:
**** as if I didn't want gb before. Does skype work device to computer too?
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yes. thats part of the point. seeing as everyone i know now has a phone with a front facing camera and a skype account, and iphones's facetime and android's google talk dont run on each others platforms, itd be really nice to have skype up and running now.

Video Calls work through Tango now

The Tango devs updated their the app and now video calls work. The audio issue has been fixed for the Droid Charge. Used it to make a call to an iphone friend and it worked flawlessly. Just thought I would spread the word.

Thanks for the heads-up.
I actually downloaded the tango app two days ago and uninstalled it and now i can't find it on the market.
Anyone else unable to find it? Has the icon changed?
Thanks,
Rick

I'll have to check this out.... it's funny, I bought a phone with a front-facing camera and never bothered using it, I guess I'll try this app out and see what the quality is like.
Few questions(dumb as they may be )
1: Can I call people who are on Skype with this app? I'm assuming I would have to wait for Skype to release a version for the Charge.
2: Does this app call other people with the app or does it just do a regular call..?
thanks :]

I tested it last night with the gf, pretty neat. It wouldn't connect at 3g (my area gets spotty between 3g/4g) but connected just fine over WiFi. From my experience, using a set of headphones is essentially mandatory for AT LEAST one party, if not both. With no headphones there was a significant amount of feedback on both ends, to the point where conversation was impossible. Perhaps this is just my experience though.

Finally, audio didnt work for the longest time

Sweet! Hopefully this will work between my charge and my wife's moto droid while she's out of town

blarrick said:
I'll have to check this out.... it's funny, I bought a phone with a front-facing camera and never bothered using it, I guess I'll try this app out and see what the quality is like.
Few questions(dumb as they may be )
1: Can I call people who are on Skype with this app? I'm assuming I would have to wait for Skype to release a version for the Charge.
2: Does this app call other people with the app or does it just do a regular call..?
thanks :]
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1. No from what I have seen it looks as if the other party needs Tango as well. There is a contacts list from within and it automatically had some contacts in my list that already had Tango.
2. I think i answered #2 with #1.
Also I used it with speaker on and had no feedback . It was absolutely flawless that one time I used it. I was on 4G. It sucked battery hard though.