Streaming Live Mobile Video With New Mobile Phones
Steaming live Mobile Video is it here now? It was not too long ago for those who remember the first consumer mobile phones that were available looked like a brick they were very bulky and heavy to carry but they still gave us mobility. Since then in a few short years there have been many changes and for awhile the trend was to get smaller in weight and size. However it is now heading back the other way again with bigger mobiles being what everyone is looking to buy these days mostly for the larger screens and for easy use of touch screens like the new iPods, but what about for streaming live mobile video?
2 G, 2.5 And 3G Networks
Some say steaming live video for mobiles is already here however is this really the case? Yes Mobile Video Worldwide is here now and has been for awhile, but the quality is another thing to consider and I have a friend that is just waiting to stream some live sports games on his mobile but in his words “right now it sucks”. Streaming is now getting more common now using 3G and is most commonly associated for mobile video. It has been also possible to stream video over both 2G GSM have SMS, 2.5G CDMA and GPRS, and 3G says it promises live mobile video streaming.
Live Streaming Now
With the newest iPhone, BlackBerry and similar “smart-phones” the competition are now making, there are a lot of software companies out there making some great software to stream live video. Onstream Media Corporation is one of them; a leading on-line service provider of live and on-demand Internet video has launched live mobile video streaming service for iPhone and BlackBerry. It says it has a high quality and Ocean20 Technologies Group have used it to stream a live web-cast of the rock band Creed In concert with more live web-cast of bands to come. I like it, live streaming rock concerts to hundreds of thousands of smart-phones, sign me up!
What Else is Already Available for Mobile Device
There are lots of other formats that are currently available or coming soon. Flash Lite 3 by Adobe, Windows Media for Pocket PCs, RealOne Player for Pocket PC, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows and Oplayo is a Java applet and is being used by some mobile carriers in Europe with pay-per-view content but it is for more niche markets at this time but can be used for Symbian, Java enabled browsers on Windows, Mac and Linux. Vemotion is British Telecom development and can be tested for Pocket PC, Symbian, Windows but still in the early stages.
Conclusion
With 3G and the new smart-phones and companies jumping on the bandwagon all the time it is a win-win for us consumers that would love to use this service to stream live mobile video to our latest new gadgets as it will only get better and better in a very short time as it is a very competitive market out there and companies are just waiting to get our hard earned cash. The bottom line, I will have to wait until my friend that says “it sucks now” to give the 2 thumbs up!
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