[3GScottishUser]

Just watch the dreadful acting on this CPW/e2save.com channel trying to sell 3 handsets.... watch the latency, the pixellation and the stuttering conversations.

One would have thoght they would have edited the stuff before trying to sell 3 stuff on televison.

This is horrible shopping channel trash but accurate in terms of what the phones do in terms of videocalling and audio qulaity.

Worth viewing if you are trmpted to go with 3.

[Jon3G]

Its on all the time and still poeple ring up and buy them

[Hands0n]

I will have to take a looksee at what they get up to.

Meanwhile ....... in defence of Videocalling (well, I would, wouldn't I?) I think it fair to say that the quality is not broadcast standard. But then it is not meant to be, is it? At best it will be as good as any 56/64Kbps video compression standard.

But today, for example, we held a videocall with our kid away on a short holiday with her friend a few hundred miles away. The choice was voice call or a face-to-face, the latter won and we had a pleasant conversation enhanced by the video capability. Front-room lighting at each end did little to enhance the video image, daylight or stronger lighting would be better - but then again, for what it was, the ability to see eachother had an undeniable appeal over mere voice.

Now I'm going to be very Anorak and go watch that Sky channel for half an hour or so!

[Hands0n]

Gawd, what dross! I just got to see a bit of the channel and saw the LG U8138 sketch. Eastenders it is not!

The Videocall quality is pretty much what I experience with the technology regardless of handset. The odd pixellation and latency are apparent often. But the "stuttering conversations" are a symptom of the call being placed in the small studio, I would say. You can hear the real voice which is then followed by the Videocall voice moments later. But I reckon the atrocious scripting is as much to blame also. In real distant Videocalls such "stuttering" does not occur unless people try to talk at the same time - but then I've experienced exactly the same on large corporate video-conference systems too. It is probably as much to do with the state of the art than anything else.

I do not expect or anticipate Videocall with the other networks to be any different given the need for standardisation and compatibility. This will not be a situation unique to 3.

[maven]

I have to say that channel is so bad, had it been my first experience of someone trying to get me on to 3, I'd have driven to the studio just to punch them in the mouth :D