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  1. twelvezero8's Avatar
    twelvezero8
    Just curious. Never used it wonder how it would affect data???

    Posted via CB10
    05-07-15 02:43 AM
  2. Mustafa Bepari's Avatar
    Mustafa Bepari
    From my experience, I assume BBM video call works on HD mode only, so yes it will consume a lot of data. Unlike Skype, where it switches between HD and SD mode based on the connection speed. On BBM, you can't make video calls on lower data speeds.
    On average, BBM uses around 80 to 120 MB per day (excluding calls).

    Z10STL100-1/10.3.1.2576
    05-09-15 02:08 PM
  3. Thesmartmale's Avatar
    Thesmartmale
    Originally Posted by Mustafa Bepari
    From my experience, I assume BBM video call works on HD mode only, so yes it will consume a lot of data. Unlike Skype, where it switches between HD and SD mode based on the connection speed. On BBM, you can't make video calls on lower data speeds.
    On average, BBM uses around 80 to 120 MB per day (excluding calls).

    Z10STL100-1/10.3.1.2576
    Completely not true! My BBM uses around 150 in a whole month including calls

    Posted via CB10
    05-10-15 01:40 AM
  4. Mustafa Bepari's Avatar
    Mustafa Bepari
    Originally Posted by Thesmartmale
    Completely not true! My BBM uses around 150 in a whole month including calls

    Posted via CB10
    Just because it didn't happen to you, doesn't make it untrue. I don't know how it happened, but it did.

    Z10STL100-1/10.3.1.2576
    05-10-15 06:40 AM
  5. Thesmartmale's Avatar
    Thesmartmale
    Originally Posted by Mustafa Bepari
    Just because it didn't happen to you, doesn't make it untrue. I don't know how it happened, but it did.

    Z10STL100-1/10.3.1.2576
    120 MB per day is more than what instagram uses in a day or Snapchat or any app for that matter, you must have video chatted for a few hours that day.

    Posted via CB10
    05-10-15 08:36 AM
  6. Mustafa Bepari's Avatar
    Mustafa Bepari
    Originally Posted by Thesmartmale
    120 MB per day is more than what instagram uses in a day or Snapchat or any app for that matter, you must have video chatted for a few hours that day.

    Posted via CB10
    I'm extremely sorry, I said in a day, but actually that's 48 hours. Device manager shows results of past day along with the present day, my bad. So that's 80 to 120 MB in 48 hours.

    And I haven't used video chat during that time. According to web discussions, this mostly happens when you browse channels. So not sure what causes this to happen.

    Z10STL100-1/10.3.1.2576
    05-10-15 09:14 AM
  7. twelvezero8's Avatar
    twelvezero8
    Ok I guess I should have been more specific. So assuming you make one video call for like 5 minutes what kind of data usage are you looking at?

    Posted via CB10
    05-13-15 05:19 AM
  8. stevobbm's Avatar
    stevobbm
    Why not test it?

    Via Passport
    05-13-15 11:38 AM
  9. stevobbm's Avatar
    stevobbm
    Without calling or video, bbm for me has used 260mb for ten days.

    I use bbm quite a lot, chats, channels and groups.

    Does video chat use a significant amount of data.-img_20150513_174310.png

    Does video chat use a significant amount of data.-img_20150513_174216.png

    Via Passport
    05-13-15 11:43 AM
  10. R1cowl's Avatar
    R1cowl
    You could switch to WiFi to cut down on the data use as well. If that is an option for you.
    05-13-15 11:55 AM
  11. twelvezero8's Avatar
    twelvezero8
    Thanks for the ones that responded. I was just curious like just overall. Doesn't look like to takes up much data which is cool.

    Posted via CB10
    05-14-15 12:55 AM
  12. Thesmartmale's Avatar
    Thesmartmale
    Does video chat use a significant amount of data.-img_20150514_093238.png

    With chatting, channels browsing and 10 minutes of voice chatting every day

    Posted via CB10
    05-14-15 02:38 AM
  13. twelvezero8's Avatar
    twelvezero8
    Originally Posted by Thesmartmale
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    With chatting, channels browsing and 10 minutes of voice chatting every day

    Posted via CB10
    Yeah so basically it doesn't use that much data. Good!


    Posted via CB10
    05-15-15 11:49 AM
  14. psarna's Avatar
    psarna
    Does video chat use a significant amount of data.-img_20150516_104351_edit.png

    Data consumption on 3rd and 13th May is about 30 mins if voice chat, on 8th May is about 20 mins of voice chat. Data use on 15th is 36 mins of video chat.

    Posted via CB10
    05-16-15 01:50 AM
  15. twelvezero8's Avatar
    twelvezero8
    You guys are awesome thanks for sharing your experiences with BBM and data usage.

    Posted via CB10
    05-16-15 06:39 AM
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