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Chris92119

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Hello,
I just got a Note 5, can't send media via text without major compression. Very bummed about this. So, I've been trying a bunch of apps and they all compress video so much that it's unwatchable, Google Drive also compresses video. How do people on Android send videos? I'm starting to miss my iphone.
Thank you.
 
Chris92119 said:
Hello,
I just got a Note 5, can't send media via text without major compression. Very bummed about this. So, I've been trying a bunch of apps and they all compress video so much that it's unwatchable, Google Drive also compresses video. How do people on Android send videos? I'm starting to miss my iphone.
Thank you.
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Anyone ??
 
You've found the limitation of cellphone MMS messaging, 300KB maximum usually, which isn't a lot especially for video. The iPhone is using iMessage, which is proprietary to iPhones and other Apple devices, i.e. videos can only be sent and received by other Apple devices, and not anything else AFAIK. If someone sent me a video via iMessage on their iPhone, I'd have to use my Macbook laptop to receive it.

Me and most everyone else I know use Wechat for messaging now, including videos, but this is in China. There's things like Google Hangouts, but other people have to have the same service.
 
Default messaging applications are horrible for sending video over. Honestly I know that I use and my friends use snapchat a lot because 10 second videos are fairly small and that's the only type of video I send a lot of.

However, I do know, as Mikedt mentioned, that hangouts is pretty good for video, except I do believe other people need hangouts as well.

Telegram is also very good with sending video files, however, once again the kicker, your friends/family/etc need to have it installed as well.
 
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