Nokia N96 Video Messaging – A Wish

 

Nokia N95 with Eyevibe

A bit like We Love Mobile, the London Mobile Ad Agency, I love mobile.

But it can be a very frustrating being technical and being involved in developing products in mobile. Even though I havn’t worked directly with MMS for a long time I still am emotionally attached to it.

Video Message Too Big

The N95 has an excellent camera, 5MP, and with 8GB of memory I set the camera to maximum resolution for images and videos. But when I record a short video clip which I want to send via MMS its always too big to send via Multimedia!

I know the solution, but who else does?

This problem has always happened on the S60 Nokia devices. There is a simple solution to the problem though. If you open the video in Gallery and then select edit then select send the video is automatically resized to fit within the 300k MMS maximum payload. 

Nokia? Hello?

So why not expose that functionality in the messaging and camera elements of the software? Its been like this for years now. Can someone tell me if it has been improved in the amazing Nokia N96?

The iPhone 3G is better

I love the iPhone, I have the 2G version and I use it in parallel with the N95 on 2 different networks. But why haven’t apple invested the time to implement their own MMS client? And why no video recording? Yes the camera is low end compared to the competition but still people like to record and send video. Why rely on 3rd party application developers to get what is core Standardised Telecoms functionality ( MMS ) onto the device.

Why have Orange Group, Telefonica, T-Mobile and the other groups, who have invested millions sending people all over the world to participate in 3GPP and OMA standardisation process just to range a device which blatantly ignores the fact that devices MUST support MMS?

I know the answer, iPhone

1. rocks
2. sells millions
3. and all the users use lots of data, 

but still…

And Finally…

I noticed that eyevibe the video social network ( which has been around for > 4 years ) from YoSpace has now been launched on T-Mobile. Well done guys, can’t wait for it to launch on Orange.