Native video calling locked to T-Mobile phones

[Hustleman]

Can the Native Video Calling that's unusually locked to T-MOBILE phones just be the standard for ALL of the Galaxy phones? I left T-MOBILE and wasn't aware that it was a T-MOBILE only exclusive. It's definitely more convenient and I liked it better than Google Meet since it was built in already. One UI 7 needs to have this as a default option for ALL Galaxy Users.

[CasualMember]

I didn't know it was a T-Mobile exclusive. It should not be a exclusive just to T-mobile users. It should be for all galaxy users!

[LongHiker · Accepted solution]

@Hustleman That is a service provided by TMobile. 

[CasualMember]

Oh. That makes since now.

[Hustleman]

That's exactly my point, it's in every Galaxy phones software but it's carrier locked to T-MOBILE. If I carrier unlocked the phone I have now and got a T-MOBILE sim card then I would have it. Although there's workarounds to enable it, the average user wouldn't want to go thru the hassle of it.

[azerith]

No so you're not picking up what he's putting down Samsung did not design that that is a T-Mobile feature for any of the T-Mobile phones. Samsung would have to design their own video calling app similar to FaceTime for Galaxy and there's no point in doing that because the market is already oversaturated with video calling apps that can achieve the purpose you're looking for.

[Hustleman]

Again like I said it's a T-MOBILE exclusive. Every carrier has features that are locked from the phone thru the software. I know this because I'm familiar with modding phones. Every Galaxy phone has the capability to do it but T-MOBILE is the only carrier that allows it. And that's the problem, nobody wants to have to download an app to do something a phone should be able to do natively. As good as Samsung is at what they do, this is something that should be a no brainer to add.

[azerith]

Every galaxy phone can do it with T-Mobile's software that's the problem every carrier uses different software just like the unlocked version has its own software. That's great I'm glad that you're able to mod I was doing the same stuff back with CyanogenMod before it became lineage OS great to meet a man of mind. My point still stands though that they're not going to release anything like that because the market is already oversaturated with plenty of video calling apps. The majority of people use Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and FaceTime. Even when I used T-Mobile I used their video calling maybe once. Look at Samsung messages that Samsung used since their creation and they're shutting it down in favor of Google messages. The market is just oversaturated and they'd have to either hire or pull people from what they're working on to work on this. From a user perspective it'd be cool from a business perspective though it's a loss.