Nokia 7650 Modified to Record Video Clips

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."

Comments

I can understand the appeal...

[neksys]

But is 95k worth of video enough to be useful? I mean, even at really low quality, and acknowledging the small resolution of these phones, that still leaves you with quite a short message. On the other hand, the cost of sending that 95k of data to another phone must be high - hell, it costs me a fortune to download a few thousand bytes onto my phone through my web connection.

Re:95 Kbs in *size*?

[AftanGustur]

Nope, that is the size. The standard for MMS multimedia messaging restricts the size of any message to 100kb

The unit 'Kilo' in physics, meaning 1000, is written 'k'
The unit 'Kilo', in CS, meaning 1024 is written 'K'
Bytes is written 'B'
bits is written 'b'
Seconds is written as 's' or '/s' as in 'per second'

Then, 95Kbs is logical to interpret as 95Kilobits per second, and that, my dear watson, is a unit for streaming capacity.