Thursday, March 20, 2003
Watch E.T. Phone Home On Your Phone?
Posted by Brad Adrian in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 AM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=3&cid=581&u=/nm/20030319/tc_nm/leisure_wireless_dc
As higher-speed mobile phone connectivity becomes more widespread, it's not surprising that people are finding creative ways to take adavantage of it. The idea, for example, of watching movies on your mobile phone has been around for a while, but this Reuters article makes it sound like this idea's time has finally come.
"The more advanced Interment [sic] access mobile phones are capable of receiving streaming video, necessary to watch the mini-movies. But the issue is whether the public wants to receive mini-movies over their mobile devices."
The article goes on to describe some of the movies unveiled at a recent "film festival." Now, I've always liked using my Pocket PCs to watch full-length movies on long airline flights. Streaming movies to the smaller mobile phone screen may be an entirely different proposition, though. I suppose IF the price were right and IF the video quality was decent and IF the choice of movies was broad enough, I might be tempted to give this a try. What about you?
As higher-speed mobile phone connectivity becomes more widespread, it's not surprising that people are finding creative ways to take adavantage of it. The idea, for example, of watching movies on your mobile phone has been around for a while, but this Reuters article makes it sound like this idea's time has finally come.
"The more advanced Interment [sic] access mobile phones are capable of receiving streaming video, necessary to watch the mini-movies. But the issue is whether the public wants to receive mini-movies over their mobile devices."
The article goes on to describe some of the movies unveiled at a recent "film festival." Now, I've always liked using my Pocket PCs to watch full-length movies on long airline flights. Streaming movies to the smaller mobile phone screen may be an entirely different proposition, though. I suppose IF the price were right and IF the video quality was decent and IF the choice of movies was broad enough, I might be tempted to give this a try. What about you?
