Our buddy Ru stopped by the office today and recorded a song with the I Am T-Pain app by Smule, the folks who did the iPhone Ocarina. Smule had a competition to see who had the best I Am T-Pain song and the winners were totally unoriginal, ripping off I’m On a Boat with I’m On a Phone. Anyways, enjoy the song!
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Our buddy Ru stopped by the office today and recorded a song with the I Am T-Pain app by Smule, the folks who did the iPhone Ocarina. Smule had a competition to see who had the best I Am T-Pain song and the winners were totally unoriginal, ripping off I’m On a Boat with I’m On a Phone. Anyways, enjoy the song!
Ustream.tv are working on a mobile streaming video application and it looks really efficient. The only problem is, does the world need yet another video streaming app? I never really got into the scene, mostly because I didn’t get into the community surrounding it. Many of my friends don’t have phones that are capable of making decent video, so they weren’t in the community either. At that point, I have to start sharing videos with total strangers, which is kind of weird. Also, these sites get completely bombarded by web cam girls who have a tendency to ruin everything they touch. For example, tapatap.com is a good site, but if you start networking with girls with cute avatars, you’ll quickly run into a girl sending you a link to either her porn site, or the porn site that employs her. Happened to me many a times. If these guys can build a community like FaceBook, where it’s all bros and no hos, we’re good.
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LG has been showcasing various LTE technologies and one of them was a WinMo phone running over LTE. The potential for LTE is amazing and it will definitely be the missing link for full video streaming and media capabilities on a device.
With LTE technology, users can download a 700 MB movie file in less than one minute at speeds of 100 Mbps. LTE technology would also allow consumers to simultaneously stream four HD movies without any buffering.
This is going to be an incredible advancement in mobile devices and LG are doing a great job of pioneering the technology. With over 250 staff on the research and development team, expect the first LTE devices to come from LG.
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Myspace Mobile now offers streaming video, bother user-gen and branded, to mobile. The service will be available for the BlackBerry Bold, Palm, Motorola Voyager, Nokia N95 and the Samsung Instinct. Notice no iPhone? That’s because the iPhone uses a different downloading method that MySpace opted out of in favor of a mobile ubiquitous downloading method.
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Blockbuster is going to develop a mobile video service that will stream video to your phone. The service will be built on Microsoft’s Live Mesh software platform. Keith Morrow, Blockbuster’s chief information officer, says the user will be able to watch a movie on a mobile phone, pause the media stream, and return to the movie from a home PC picking up right where they left off.
“Eventually, we’ll give customers instant access to any movie on any device with an Internet connection and a screen. More immediately, we could use this technology to reach into airports. Travelers could quickly download movies from Blockbuster kiosks to their portable media players.”
I’m not sure when the service is launching, but I’ll keep you updated!
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Soccer is a huge driver of mobile video. Soccer fans want to keep in touch with their favorite team and be able to watch the game wherever they are. Sports in general are driving this business. One of the benefits of mobile video is that the device is much more closely connected to your life.
University researches in Sweden saw an opportunity here and have made vibration alerts for soccer games being watched on a mobile device. The vibration alerts are tied to the game and if someone kicks the ball, your phone will vibrate. The vibrations change depending on how close the ball is to the net, so you know when to tune in.
In their method, a cell phone is synchronized with the ball in the real field, most likely through manual input. As the researchers note, the ball is the focus of most of the attention, which can be seen by TV cameras constantly following the ball. Every time the ball is kicked, the phone vibrates. Depending on where the ball is located on the field (which is divided into five segments), the phone vibrates at a specific frequency and duration.
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Heard of Robert Scoble? Of course. He works at Fast Company.TV. His more recent video is with the guys from Qik. Qik is a mobile video community where you upload videos from your mobile and you can watch and share them. Recently, Qik has made their video service and community open to BlackBerry users.
If you’re like me, you use your phone for all kinds of things besides making phone calls. I watch videos, play games, surf the web, and listen to music almost constantly! So here are a few of my personal favourite audio and video applications. They are in no particular order as it’s difficult to pick and choose between them - they’re all very cool and useful in their own ways. So have a look through and grab a few and let me know what you think!
DivX Mobile Player is now available for Windows Mobile 5.0+ and Symbian OS 9.0+. The latest updates include thumbnail display, improved handling of corrupt video files, improved playback position memory and easier access for DivX Video-on-Demand playback.
Download DivX Mobile for Symbian or Windows Mobile here!
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There’s a new iPhone app out there that will get you excited about television all over again. i.TV, an iPhone app that updates users with relevant and up-to-date TV and movie listings based on location, is now available on the App Store. The app also lets users recommend shows through an email alert to friends. On top of all that, i.TV also lets users watch movie and TV previews from their iPhone.