Daniel Millions asked:

The summer of 2007 saw the introduction of the new generation of mobile multimedia interactive cell phones with the release of Apple’s iPhone. Crammed into a package only 4.5″ inches and weighing less than 5 ounces, the Apple iPhone offers users so many features the company offers video tutorials to help customers learn all the things it can do for them.

Contained just within the phone functions are such pro-business features as call conferencing and merging, hold feature, caller ID and the ability to integrate with other cell networks. The iPhone offers voice mail listings without having to access the actual Voicemail and one can pick and choose between calls rather than have to move through them sequentially.

Due to the popularity of ringtones, it was only a few months before Apple upgraded to ringtone functions. By partnering in this feature with iTunes, users can custom design their own ringtones from purchased songs through the iTunes network or the Apple GarageBand software. These ringtones can then be used not only to alert one to an incoming call but can be associated with specific alarm and notification features as well.

Text messaging has been made easier with the implementation of a virtual keyboard on the touch screen. For increased accuracy the texting program includes such aids as predictive word capabilities coupled with automatic spell check and correction and a dictionary that allows you to add words as needed to help it understand topic related jargon, names and special purpose words and phrases. The virtual keyboard has been made a bit larger than previous attempts at this virtual technology and, with two-way orientation, is at its best in landscape position.

As well as superb telephonic utilization, the Apple iPhone has the capability to access e-mail clients through both IMAP and POP3 servers. Both Yahoo and Gmail offer a program for access from the iPhone and by mid 2008 are planning to upgrade to sync with both Apple’s mail application but with Microsoft ActiveSync to connect with Microsoft Outlook and Entourage. The e-mail capabilities include HTML acceptance for graphical e-mail that can include digital photographs and graphics and can embed pictures in outgoing mail as well. Portable Document Files (PDF) as well as Word and Excel documents can be attached and viewed on the iPhone screen.

With a picture being sometimes more informative than any amount of verbal description, the iPhone does have a two megapixel digital camera onboard and the output can be copied directly to an e-mail. The iPhone does not, however, offer video camera functions.

The Apple iPhone was originally released with the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card locked into the AT&T network exclusively. However it did not take long for hackers to find a way to unlock the card for use on other networks and now nearly a fourth of the iPhones sold in the United States are not registered with the AT&T network. While originally designed to block the multimedia and web access functions without an authorized subscription; this too has fallen to the hacker’s craft and various software programs and modification cracks have emerged to free the access to these features outside the AT&T network.

These features make the Apple iPhone a powerful business asset even without even beginning to discuss the many other multimedia and web accessibility features that have made the iPhone worthy of Time magazine’s Invention of the Year award.

Daniel asked:


Mobile internet costs

Take a look at US telecommunications giant – Verizon.

Verizon Wireless and other big mobile operators like Sprint Nextel have spent billions of dollars building 3G multimedia networks, and now they have to generate revenue through new services such as paid video. Certainly, these

3G networks are also ideal for carrying other data services such as mobile e-mail and different mobile applications. But using them to deliver music and video content wirelessly is a much easier concept to sell to consumers.

According to IDC, only 6.9 million, or 3 percent, out of 230 million mobile-phone subscribers in the U.S. are expected to view video on a mobile device by the end of 2006. And even though that number is expected to grow, analysts don’t believe mobile TV watching will hit the mainstream anytime soon.

By 2010, IDC predicts that only 9 percent of cell phone subscribers in the U.S. will tune in to TV on their mobile phones.

( posted by news.com )

Verizon take additional $15 per month for its mobile-video services and I think that for the most people it is still expensive. May be in the future this mobile video services could be based on Mobile Advertising platform and mobile Ads revenues can close investments and other costs.

As a matter of fact, in February had launched the first mobile Ads for the iPhone.



Ad Infuse is serving up ads from Esurance and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America on several sites, including Health & Fitness Mobile for Men and MondoMedia.com. (posted by news.com).

The Ads effect in iPhone was not good, because the tester had to wait 5 min Ads downloading process. The main problem was a slow internet connection in iPhone. It could be better, if mobile infrastructure can tune mobile connections and mobile video stuff.

Mobile video content quality

The other basic aspect to win new customers in mobile multimedia niche – the quality of mobile video content.

Sure, that all people would like to watch videos only in good quality, they are all take care of eyes!

We are talking about DVD length movies for iPhone or cell phones.

Good quality video content take a lot of time for encode-decode video in appropriate mobile video format with the best video / audio options for different cell phone models.

Any way, it’s a lot of work (time and money) for companies, which deliver this ready video content to mobile carriers.

Another alternative for mobile fun is YouTube mobile service. It’s free for use, like YouTube web site version, but they are only amateur videos and other video stuff, but also here exist a lot of limits, e.g. your cell phone need to support RSTP data streaming protocol, your mobile carrier must provide RSTP internet connection and so on. I am talking now only about US and Canada for other world this service is too expensive and now a day not supported from mobile operators.

So, a good quality mobile video content is additional investment for mobile operators, who want to take a big part of pie in this mobile niche, but it’s still in development process!

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We have also other alternative to watch videos in cell phones, this aspect we discuss here.

In Internet you can find a huge of software and online video solutions.

I am convinced, that today this method (for watch video content in cell phone) use 90 % of people in the world, inclusive USA and Canada.

If you use software solutions, it takes a lot of time to find your favorite video, convert it in appropriate mobile video format (e.g. 3gp video format) and than transfer converted video to cell phone (via Bluetooth or USB cable). Well done! After all this steps you can watch this video in cell phone.

Basically, software solutions are difficult for normal internet user and you have to purchase it.

The main difficult position, using software video convert solutions is to know all video / audio options for converting video (video bit rate, audio bit rate, video size etc.). For example, for 60 min DVD movie you will spend 25-30 min of time if you know the right video convert options plus memory in your cell phone.

Other negative aspect is available memory in your cell phone for store converted videos content.

Sure, that memory in cell phone is limited factor and therefore it is disadvantage for most of us.

It’s not a secret, that everyone would prefer to use mobile video content in cell phones and iPhone, saving the time and money at the same time!

Now this perfect solution for mobile video content search many companies!!!

In the next time, we will discuss the great aspect, how to watch videos in cell phones, iPhones without spending much time for convert videos to cell phone and store it in mobile phones, do not thinking about memory space!

Stay tuned – we will write new reports!