Survey: Most Windows Phone owners don't use front facing camera

3. quryous (banned) posted on 27 Jul 2012, 12:47 2 2

The main use for it is video telephone. But all the apps for it make it pretty well useless, no matter WHAT platform. Until everyone has a convenient way to use a two-way video call there will be little use for it.

Further, many people just want people to see how they look at various times. How would you like to take a video call at 3:00am?

4. Penny posted on 27 Jul 2012, 12:52 2 0

I don't think a lot of Windows Phone users have a front facing camera...at least the first generation devices don't. I would probably at least play with it if I had it.

5. ramponin posted on 27 Jul 2012, 12:56 0 2

HTC Titan doesn't have a front-facing camera, only the HTC Radar.

6. PAPINYC posted on 27 Jul 2012, 12:57 1 3

iUse mine all the time. When iAm home with Wi-Fi access iFacetime my friends with iPhones and iPads from my iPhone 4S. When iAm on the go iUse the 2.0MP FFC on my Rezound. And all because true beauty has no liMits.

7. jsoliz1985 posted on 27 Jul 2012, 12:58 1 0

I use my front camera daily to video chat using google talk when i'm out of town and want to get some face time with my girlfriend. and i use it to stay in touch with my dad who lives in mexico. i most likely would never use it if i never left houston.

9. k4j98 posted on 27 Jul 2012, 13:11 0 0

Yeah, I use the ffc for fun, but not seriously. Even being on Android, I haven't used it but maybe three or four times. It's just a boy scout gimmick (if I ever need it, I'll be prepared...but I probably wont' need it).

It's like going on a camping trip with a bow and arrow; you know you'll just use the bow for the fun of it.

11. Ubi2447 posted on 27 Jul 2012, 13:11 0 0

I use Tango all the time to video call my family. I'd say AT LEAST twice a week. It's a must for me.

12. christianqwerty posted on 27 Jul 2012, 13:13 0 0

I use my front camera in my iphone a lot, from the occasional tinychat video conference, to facetiming people, to checking if there is something in my teeth, to taking pictures with friends. It's really handy i think

13. andro. posted on 27 Jul 2012, 13:14 0 2

This is probably because a large number of windows phones don have front cameras as well as the fact people generally don't use them even if available. If this survey was done for all phone types and is the results would be the same. 3g video calling has been around since like 2007 and it was just a passing fad which wore off,it makes the ridiculous efforts of apple trying to make video calls look like something astonishing new in 2010 under the 'facetime' alias look all the funnier.

Phones should have a front camera to give people the option to use it,but realistically the camera should not be above 2mp as it'd rarely if ever be used

16. Glim12808 posted on 27 Jul 2012, 14:01 0 0

My Radar has a front-facing camera but have never used it. I Tango and Skype often with friends and family but I only use voice. I know how they look like in person so I don't see the need to use FFC. LOL!

17. thedarkside posted on 27 Jul 2012, 14:40 0 0

thats the answer to a question i didnt ask.

18. Hammerfest posted on 27 Jul 2012, 15:42 0 0

Quite a large number of people don't know about what you can truly do with a front facing camera!

The use of Skype or carrier provided Video call software is really an unknown for many, I have had to teach both of my parents how to use Skype on their phones (and had to tell them several times they can do phone-to-pc or pc-to-phone video calls EXACTLY like normal)...

HOWEVER, the LARGEST by FAR problem is UNITY... as in sure I have Skype, but he/she I am trying to talk to doesn't, or I have my carrier/phonemfg app with account but they dont and/or cant get it on their own device (restrictions based issues)...

I hate Google for becoming evil in some VERY LARGE respects/aspects/situations, HOWEVER, I LOVE them for providing UNITY whenever/wherever/however they can... They know everything about me, BUT they provide me a platform where it can all be mixed together without me having to manually do the mixing to create that PERFECT CEAK! for myself. (CEAK is a lie...)

20. SemperFiV12 posted on 27 Jul 2012, 18:44 0 0

SKYPE will bring about a shift in the chart in my opinion. Video chatting will grow in popularity as SKYPE refines its mobile apps (especially as an integrated part of WINDOWS PHONE) as well as the added speeds of 4G by the carriers.

Hypothetical example (rumor based): Verizon 4G LTE + Nokia Lumia 1001 + Windows Phone 8 + Skype = Winning formula for FFC usage, not to mention a sweet SWEET match!

21. AeroPrime posted on 27 Jul 2012, 20:52 1 0

Its not a norm to use the front facing camera i have phones with front facing camera since 2005...and now even once I use it for video calling.... you get calls but not video calls.

23. taco50 (banned) posted on 28 Jul 2012, 16:19 0 0

I rarely use it. I do video calls every now and then and have taken a few pics with it. I'd use it more for pics if it was better quality.