Both Google and Samsung phone dialer have native call recorder which works great, but they are only active in certain countries. Here we tell you in which countries the call function of both Samsung and Google is available, as well as how each of them is.
Where you can record with Google Phone
Most Android phones use the Google Phone app as a phone dialer, and those where it’s not usually can. download from google play, although if it did not come pre-installed, you will not be able to record calls. This dialer has lots of cool extra features like spam blocker, caller ID and yes, too. native call recording.
Do you use the Google Phone app and have never seen that it can be recorded? It is not uncommon, as the application completely hides that it can record calls if you use it in certain countries, both during a call and in its settings. Call recording in the Google Phone app requires Android 9 or higher, an updated version of the app, and that you are in one of these countries or regions:
Algeria
angola Argentina Australia Bahamas Bangladeshi Barbados Botswana Belarus Belize Benin Bermuda Islands bolivia Burkina Faso Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Cameroon Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chili Colombia congo Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt The Savior Ethiopia Falkland Islands Gabon Gambia Ghana Gibraltar |
Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guiana Haiti Hong Kong Honduras India Indonesia isle of man Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan sweater Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Madagascar malawi Mali Mexico Monaco Morocco Mozambique Burma Namibia Nepal New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Northern Mariana Islands |
Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Singapore South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka Surinam Swiss Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turks and Caicos Islands United Arab Emirates Ugandan Islands Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Zambia |
This is the Google Phone call recording
Are you in one of these regions and did Google dialer come pre-installed on your mobile? In this case you should be able to record calls very easily, from the dialer itself. The save option appears as one of the contextual buttons during a call. Note that if there are many buttons, it may go to the second screen.
The first time you try to record a call, the application reminds you that it is going to notify the caller that you are recording the callAnd it doesn’t do it in a particularly subtle way. When pressing the button, a voice announcement indicates that the call has started to be recorded, and will be heard by the other person. When the recording stops, another locution is heard.
Call recording can be activated manually or, in some cases, from the settings, in the Call Recording section, you can activate that all calls are automatically recorded. However, these settings seem to be active only in some regions.
Where can you record calls on a Samsung
Do you have a Samsung mobile that, therefore, does not come with the Google Phone app pre-installed, but with Samsung’s own dialer? The good news is that also has a call recorder and the bad news is that, again, it is only active in some regions.
Samsung’s call recording is available in a much more limited list of countries and regions than Google’s and the vast majority of which are Asian countries. These are the countries where it is available:
Bangladeshi
Egypt India Indonesia Israel |
Laos Libya Nepal Sri Lanka Thailand |
Tunisia Ukraine Vietnam |
This is Samsung call recording
Samsung’s native call recording is very similar to Google’s, integrating itself as one more button in the keypad context when a call has started. After pressing Engravethe recording begins without further explanation and, what is more interesting, without any indication, sound or speech being made.
Samsung’s call recorder shows very clearly that it is recording both from the call itself and from the notification, showing the recording time and the classic record callsign.
In the settings you can also activate the automatic recording of all calls, being able to differentiate between recording all, some numbers or some specific phone numbers. You can also choose, if you have a Micro SD, if the recording is going to be recorded on the internal memory or on the memory card.