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Nokia 7650 Modified to Record Video Clips

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the porn-industry-ready dept.

rocannon writes "T-Mobile has started offering MPEG4 video messaging on the Nokia 7650 with a modified software created by the Finnish company Hantro. This is the European debut of the service that allows users to record, save and play back video sequences, up to a maximum of 95 Kbs in size, on their mobile phone. Clips can be transmitted and received to/from peers via (MMS) e-mail."

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  1. I think I should be the first to point out... by dknj · · Score: 4, Informative

    That you can fit decent quality movie clips into a 95kb file. Original article here

    -dk

  2. More about the features of 6650 by jukal · · Score: 4, Informative
    6650 product page:

    - Weight: 141 g
    - Dimensions: 132 x 52 x 25 mm
    - Talktime: 2 h 20 min (WCDMA), 2 h 40 min (GSM)
    - Standby time: Up to 350 h
    - Key features: Integrated camera for taking video and still images, new WCDMA air interface, fast connection: up to 128 kbps, multimedia messaging (MMS), large graphical color display, multitasking: talk and send simultaneously
    - Operating frequency: Tri-band mobile phone for WCDMA and GSM 900/1800 networks
    - Imaging resolution: Image/video capture at 640x480/128x96, more than 10 frames/second

    Full specifications are here.

    So althought the product from Hantro is interesting, it seems to unfortunately have entered the market 6-12 months too late to do a difference. These (and better) capabilities will be a standard feature too soon.

  3. Re:I can understand the appeal... by tuoppi · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least in here Finland, mobile operators have very different billing schemes. One operator charges only static monthly (very reasonable) cost of GPRS usage, with no limits on data transferred - which is a great way to promote GPRS to public. Some operators on another hand have ridicilously high rates on data transfers, most likely their services are rarely used.

    In practice this means that you will pay the price you are ready to pay for that service.And it is up to economists to figure out what you're ready to pay, not up to you. ;-)

  4. Re:mpeg4? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It is MPEG4, and MPEG4 at small frame sizes is pretty light on CPU to encode/decode; it takes ~35MHz of an ARM CPU to to MPEG4 QCIF encode or decode. I think the 7650 has a ~90Mhz ARM9 core internally.

  5. Re:Who cares? by jyristys · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true. Nokia has allready announced 3650 ( http://www.nokia.com/phones/3650/ ) which is triband (works in the USA too), and can record video without any extra software. This baby also icludes an MMC card for storing those video clips and should be on sale early next year.