Video on mobile phones: craptacular or just shitty? These are the sort of hard questions we ask around these parts, and it doesn’t look like we’re alone. This piece from Investor’s Business Daily still quotes market research as predicting a multi-billion dollar market from video in the next few years — and okay, fine, it’s possible — but then goes on to talk about what a drag most of the current offerings are (Sprint, apparently, won’t even release subscriber numbers for MobiTV). So that’s a wash, then, at least for now, but what about short video clips, or video SMS? I’d much rather see clips from my friends than 45 seconds of Fraiser.
I just won’t stop typing after the jump.
And speaking of painful viewing, has anyone else seen that Samsung commercial they’ve been playing (in the local AMC theater) with the woman that documents her whole perfect life on her phone? I can imagine sitting at home on a Friday night in my underwear, eating some Grape Nuts or something, and getting these hourly updates from my hot friend documenting how absolutely fucking perfect her life was. That’s the sort of technology I like; the kind that makes other people feel bad about themselves.
Read – Mobile Service Firms Starting To Provide Cell Phone TV, Video [Yahoo]
