Mobile Video Archive

  • Skype eager to work with Apple FaceTime, pretty much anyone else

    Skype eager to work with Apple FaceTime, pretty much anyone else

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    We're still playing the wait-and-see game when it comes to Skype on webOS and Windows Phone 7, but it looks as if to-be iPhone 4 owners won't have to wait long before Skype-based video chatting becomes a reality... if Skype has its way, that is. According to someone on the inside quoted over at Pocket-Lint, Skype "would welcome the opportunity to work with Apple," specifically in reference to integrating FaceTime capabilities into the firm's own app. The mystery man also affirmed that Skype would "welcome the opportunity to work with Apple to bring mobile video calling not only to our many millions of Skype users on iPhone around the world, but also to the countless more making video calls on desktops, TVs and other connected devices." 'Course, there's no specific time frame given, and only Jobs knows if the two companies have said a word to one another about making this happen. One thing's for sure, though -- enabling FaceTime usage within Skype would suddenly made the iPhone 4's video calling abilities a whole lot more appealing. And by "appealing," we mean "useful."

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  • Skype Mobile with video support coming to Android Market later this year?

    Skype Mobile with video support coming to Android Market later this year?

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Skype's PR folks have been unusually loquacious today, as they've responded to a query about whether HTC's EVO 4G would get a Skype client with a deep and meaningful forward-looking statement, underpinned by a promise of an Android app "for all consumers globally to download regardless of carriers." This universally available addition to the Market should arrive "later this year," but what's important about it is that it's preceded by a lengthy spiel about Skype's ambition to "set the bar on mobile video calling," which it also intends to do this year. Does this necessarily mean that Skype video calling is coming to Android in time for us to wish granny happy Hanukkah over video chat? No. Is it a well constructed insinuation to that effect? Hell yes. Read the full statement at the source, or find the juiciest excerpt after the break.

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    Skype Mobile with video support coming to Android Market later this year? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 06:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years

    Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    As smartphones like the iPhone and Android take over the mobile Web, the amount of data traffic going over cellular networks is expected to grow 40-fold over the next five years. UK firm Coda Research Consultancy forecasts that in the U.S. alone mobile handset data traffic will grow from 8 terabytes/month this year to 327 terabytes/month in 2015. That amounts to a 117 percent compound annual growth rate. A lot of that data will come in the form of mobile Web browsing, with the biggest contributor expected to be mobile video. By 2015, mobile video will account for 68.5 percent of all mobile data usage in the U.S. (or 224 terabytes/month). Coda estimates that 95 million mobile handset subscribers in the U.S. will be watching video on their phones in five years out of a total of 158 million mobile internet users.

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  • Fring gets Skype video chat support on Nokia devices

    Fring gets Skype video chat support on Nokia devices

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    If we were to make a “Amazing ideas” list and a “Things that have totally failed to take off” list, there would be at least one item that you’d find on both: mobile video chat. Blame the carriers for not agreeing on a standard, or blame the consumer populace for not pressing hard enough; either [...]

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  • Android 2.0 ported to original T-Mobile G1 (video)

    Android 2.0 ported to original T-Mobile G1 (video)

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments

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    Did you hear? Google's got this little OS called Android that has reached the ripe, mature age of 2-point-Oh. With the giant eclair now sitting on Google's front lawn and the SDK out in the wilds, what was poor Akira Harada to do with all that code knowing that the Motorola Droid was still days away from shipping? Port it to the original Android device, the T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream, naturally. It's a rough port, not even close to being optimized but it should whet your appetites for all those official updates and delicious home-cooked ROMs we expect to be arriving in the hallowed halls of the XDA forums in the days ahead. See it after the break... roll it!

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    Android 2.0 ported to original T-Mobile G1 (video) originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • OWLE Launches Bubo; Ultimate iPhone Video Rig

    OWLE Launches Bubo; Ultimate iPhone Video Rig

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    With the iPhone 3GS, the possibilities are endless. In July 2009, Harold Smith and Graham Mcbain took the iPhone 3GS, and made the first prototype of the OWLE Bubo, which we covered on CrunchGear. Now, just four months later, the OWLE Bubo is ready to ship to the public. OWLE, which stands for Optical Widgets for Life Enhancement, is aiming to making mobile video much easier, by taking the parts you use on your camcorder, and enabling you to use them on the iPhone. The Bubo comes standard with a hotshoe mount on top for LED lights, four tripod mounts and standard 37mm lens threading so that you can put your own lenses on it, in addition to the lens that the Bubo comes with.

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  • Microsoft makes a funny with Marketplace ‘apps lab’

    Microsoft makes a funny with Marketplace ‘apps lab’

    Posted on October 21, 2009 | No Comments

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    It's another Microsoft video, another few minutes of hilarious, unintentional pain. This time Microsoft is tackling the topic of apps, riffing on the abundance of gimmick apps for the iPhone. Unfortunately for Microsoft, we'd think the last thing it would want to do is draw comparisons between Apple's App Store and the company's freshly minted Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Video is after the break.

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    Microsoft makes a funny with Marketplace 'apps lab' originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • New iPod Nano gets a camera

    New iPod Nano gets a camera

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    The iPod Nano, long beloved by joggers and the highly mobile now has a video camera, microphone, and speaker built in. iPod Nano will now have a Cover Flow, Genius Mix, and Voice Over support, allowing you to read out the names of songs as they’re played. The Nano also has a build-in pedometer and [...]

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  • LG unveils a mobile phone that shoots 720p video

    LG unveils a mobile phone that shoots 720p video

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    What’s this about a 12-megapixel, HD video recording cell phone unveiled in Warsaw? If you’re to believe LG, then the GC990 Louvre is merely a concept at this point. Under the hood of said concept is a 12-megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach optics, xenon flash, and auto/touch focus. But the big reveal is the ability to record 720p video at 30fps.

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  • All the mobile Obama videos you can handle, courtesy of Clippz

    All the mobile Obama videos you can handle, courtesy of Clippz

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Clippz, a fledgling video startup with offices in the UK and Princeton, NJ, offers a platform for mobile videos that eliminates the need for a carrier network. It's a very basic service: it essentially lets you select your current mobile phone on its website and based on your selection it allows you to download the most fitting version of any mobile video on its platform to your computer. You can then 'sideload' (transfer the data of) the video with the best quality for your mobile device directly onto the phone via USB, Bluetooth or simply by means of a swappable memory card. This morning, Clippz dedicated a channel to material from the Obama Administration. Aptly named, 'The White House' channel offers mobile-optimized videos from the official White House YouTube channel for download, free of charge.

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