What's the mobile video hold up?
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Blog: Mobiloscenti say devices are robust and networks ready, but carriers and content producers are gumming up the works.
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NEW YORK - Ever get frustrated because you can't figure out how to use all the features on your cellphone? You're not alone. Manufacturers have become so enamored of cool features - including cameras, recording devices and video-streaming capabilities - that they have lost sight of the fact that many consumers just want good voice reception, according to a survey by the Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME).
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The company's latest digital camera includes advanced video features.
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By Rhodri Marsden  Even fairly recently, a personal videophone was some absurdly futuristic sci-fi vision, akin to strapping on a jetpack or having a robot do your ironing. But if you have a newer model of mobile phone and a 3G network connection, it may be within reach.
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When it ships next week, Apple's iPhone will be loaded with 10,000 YouTube videos. YouTube will recode the rest of its videos into the H.264 format used by the iPhone by fall.
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Webshots, which is one of the preferred photo storage and sharing destinations for millions of bloggers and MySpace members, has just gone video. While I don&#8217;t see them dethroning YouTube, they will serve millions of video impressions and advertisements. Quite a smart move by Webshots which already enjoys an active and vibrant user community. Now you [...]
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New phone enables users to shoot, edit and upload videos directly from their device.
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NewTeevee Mobile video is new &#151; you watch it on your cellphone screen. So who&#146;s watching it? New data from Nielsen say that it&#146;s mainly middle-age men with high incomes. Katie Fehrenbacher writes that it proves one thing. that &#145;&#145;the price point is just too high right now&#146;&#146; &#151; oh yeah, and rich old men always have all the fun.
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InfoWorld - Big names are coming to mobile video after a slow start for a service that has been touted as a perfect use for fast 3G (third-generation) networks.
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(InfoWorld) - Watching TV on a mobile phone could get more interesting next year with new technologies that promise to bring TiVo-like recording functionality to portable devices. Texas Instruments is demonstrating PVR (personal video recording) capabilities for mobiles at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam this week. It is using its own Hollywood digital TV chip and OMAP 2 multimedia processor, along with software from partners PacketVideo and Software Systems (S3). The technology allows people to record a TV program on their mobile phone and then watch it later, on the train on the way to work, for example. The TI package also provides "picture-in-picture" capabilities, allowing a person to watch a prerecorded program and also track a live sports event in a smaller, on-screen window. The PVR technology should find its way into mobile phones in 2007, TI said. It didn't name any handset makers but most of the big vendors, including Samsung ElectronicsÂ and Nokia, are marketing phones for TV viewing. The companies hope the PVR capabilities will draw more people to mobile TV, which the telecommunications industry has been marketing heavily as a way to generate more revenue from consumers and make use of the high-speed 3G wireless networks that operators have been building. Predictions vary for how quickly mobile TV will take off. In-Stat predicts there will be 3.4 million mobile TV subscribers by the end of the year, jumping to 102 million by 2010. Strategy Analytics Inc., another researcher, said the hype around mobile TV remains out of proportion to the evidence of consumer interest. Including PVR capabilities improves the value proposition of mobile TV, but it's unclear whether it will make more consumers willing to pay for it, said Strategy Analytics analyst Nitesh Patel. Offering a picture within a picture on a small portable handset screen is "a bit ambitious," he noted. "It will be interesting to see how this products ties into how much memory gets bundled into handset," he said. "I'm presuming that a lot of memory will be required to store a 1.5 hour movie." If the video is recorded using the H.264 standard, a gigabyte of memory would be enough to store about three hours of 30-frames-per-second video for display on a QVGA 320-by-240-resolution screen, a TI spokeswoman said. Phone makers would decide whether to use flash memory or a hard disk, and how much memory to offer. The demonstration at IBC used TI's DTV1000 Hollywood processor, which is based on the DVB-H mobile TV standard and combines a tuner, demodulator, decoder and some memory on one chip. It also uses its OMAP2430 processor, which can decode two TV channels simultaneously, providing the picture-in-picture capability. The device used was a hybrid phone/PDA built for TI by PacketVideo for the purpose of the demonstration. The OMAP chip has video-out capabilities, which means people on the road could watch their prerecorded TV content on a TV in a hotel room, for example, so long as the phone maker provides the right outputs. Other developments are under way to make mobile TV more palatable for consumers. Samsung said this week it is developing a new display driver that adjusts the brightness of a display according to ambient lighting conditions. Due for mass production at the end of this year, it It should make displays easier to view in broad daylight, Samsung said.
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More heated debate Well, we're back! Thanks to those who registered and responded to last week's debate and workshop on mobile email. You can see a round up of this here, but meanwhile, we want to pick up on the question of mobile security and the need for device management.â¦
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Long gone are the days when it was enough for a mobile phone to simply be a phone. Ever since the technology began to emerge to transform handsets into handheld media players, phone manufacturers have been producing these multimedia marvels in droves.
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(InfoWorld) - Consumers starved for details about Apple's soon to be released iPhone have a few new photos and movies to peruse before getting their hands on one next week. The video section of the iPhone Web site talks about several of the technologies in the device. Muti-touch and the ability to control the interface with your fingers; OS X as the underpinnings of the iPhone; Wireless, including EDGE and Wi-Fi; and the different sensors in the iPhone are all covered. The video section continues in three sections: Phone, iPod and Internet. There are some interesting things to watch for in the videos, like the options that appear on the screen while making a phone call and how easy it is to merge calls. It is also interesting to watch the SMS and Mail sections to see the demo being shown typing with two fingers (or thumbs). This is a feature that is particularly important to BlackBerry users who have become accustomed to typing very fast with their thumbs. The photo gallery shows the iPhone in many different positions, but of particular note are pictures showing the iPhone in the dock and another showing the new earbuds with a built-in mic. The iPhone officially goes on sale on June 29, 2007.
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I have several cell-phone voice-mail messages that I need to record for archiving. My wireless provider was no help at all. Can you help?  A: Absolutely.
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The iPhone&#39;s resume now includes YouTube. Apple announced that its upcoming, much-publicized mobile device will be compatible with videos published to the popular Web site, thanks to an Apple-designed application.
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Blog: Prototype software sends recent images taken in the vicinity of a Flickr member to that person's mobile phone and keeps people up to date with contacts' Flickr photos.
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On June 29, iPhone customers will enjoy the best YouTube experience on a mobile device thanks to a new Apple-designed application that wirelessly streams YouTube content to iPhone over Wi-Fi or EDGE networks. YouTube now encodes their videos in the advanced H.264 format, and iPhone will be the first mobile device to play YouTube content encoded in the format. Apple TV customers, meanwhile, can begin enjoying that content today after installing the free software update directly from Apple TV.