The mobile phones addiction is increasing day by day, now we see a mobile in every second person’s hands. Don’t we? All are getting mobile geeks today may because of the effect of the “Idea’s ‘Save paper, use mobile’ advertisement or the Nokia’s new study” whatever the reason may be, like all of them I am too getting. Now the most important gadget in my life without which I can’t even live is my mobile – Sony Ericsson w910i. I was recently Playing with it during my trip to India recently. To escape my boredom and for a kind of Distraction or “Support”, depending on what you call.

Someone having advanced knowledge on mobile phones, not meaning technically, but about the model releases, etc. Must be knowing that a Sony Ericsson W910i/W595/W760 and maybe some more phones cannot use the Front Camera even though it is present, for making a Video or Taking a picture when there is no Video Call currently going on! So anyone as such must be Sony Ericsson have kept it disabled as not to be used when there is no video call going. I wonder what is the reason behind it, but it is not available.

When I was simply playing around the phone menu’s, I came across a set of Sub Menu that I never came across. Let me inform you that, I don’t use the Video Calling feature in my phone. So these set of menus were in the video call menu. In such a way that even a Video Calling user most probably might not have noticed as well.

So after some thinking I discovered that the Front Camera of W910i and other similar phones CAN take a Video Recording of around 30 seconds. There are some Cons in it. But anyway I say my phone can record video using its Front Camera when there is no Current Video Call going on even though SE says it as “Impossible”.

So here is what I did

• Go to “Contacts”
• Pick Any Contact and press “Options”
• Press “Make Video Call”
• On the “Video Call failed” dialog box, press “send Video msg”
• Behold ! now you can see yourself using the Front Camera
• Press the “record” button and record……
• After the Video has been recorded, save it and you will notice an MMS dialog box
• Close the MMS dialog box and “Save” it
• Now you can see the Video you recorded on your Memory Card or Phone Memory depending on your Basic Camera Settings (i.e. rear camera)

Enjoy!  Sony Ericsson  It is possible No bounds, No Limitations

PS: Make sure 3G is Switched OFF to “encounter” the Video Call Failed.

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