Erica Sadun from Ars Technica, found the undocumented TV-out feature in the latest version of the iPhone SDK. The featured gives you the ability to export video to a connected TV. Although the feature disables the touchscreen, it has great potential for bringing movies from your iPhone to any TV. The output is a much higher resolution that the iPhone screen, which may lead to frame-rate drops, but as you can see from the video, the concept is still impressive.
More video of the iPhone TV-out in action after the jump
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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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Remember those videos of the kids popping popcorn with their mobile phones? Well it looked like a hoax and it turned out to be one. The video was meant as a viral marketing campaign to get people to buy more Bluetooth headsets. The logic was fairly simple in that if you can convince people to not put a phone to their ear, they’ll buy a headset.
About 5 months after the video was revealed as fake, the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus released a statement saying the following:
Read more about the viral video after the jump
FunMobility, today announces the launch of America’s Best Mobile Flix (aFLIX), the first interactive video sharing service and mobile social network, on Verizon Wireless. aFLIX will enable Verizon Wireless customers to easily create unique mobile video experiences and share user-generated content with other mobile phone users across multiple carrier networks.
Using aFLIX, Verizon Wireless customers who have phones with video capabilities may share their mobile videos as life happens. Customers can upload videos into categories such as Comedy, Kids Vids, Crazy Pets, Sports Hijinks, and many more, or create a profile with their videos and share public or private messages with other members. Customers can also review, comment, rate and share every video on aFLIX right from their mobile phone. Videos with higher ratings are featured in a special “best videos” category every month, and customers are automatically presented with the highest-rated video they have not yet seen when they open the aFLIX application on their phones.
FunMo.com, will power the aFLIX application, which can be downloaded directly from Get it Now or Media Center for a $4.99 subscription.
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The Vodafone BlackBerry Storm 9500 is making the rounds and leaving a trail of videos and reviews in its wake. Something I’ve recently discovered about the BlackBerry Storm is that it has no pinch style zoom. The touch screen isn’t so much a touch screen, as it is a “push screen.” In order to type and interact with the phone, you need to physically push down the screen and click. If I want to zoom in and out, I have to select a menu option. The iPhone is superior in this respect. On the other hand, the BlackBerry Storm has cut and paste. Score!
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This has got to be one of the best Windows Mobile devices out there. The HTC Touch HD has got such a nice screen and media capabilities and I can watch these video reviews all day. The first impressions of the phone clearly leave the reviewer taken aback by the screen and clean user interface. The device is shipping to customers in both Europe and Asia so expect a lot of videos like this. Highlights include:
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Android apps are now available at Handango. Click the pic or the banner at the bottom to check them out. Some of the apps available include:
I’m curious to see how this app store compares to not only the on-device carrier driven store we’ve been told will arrive, but Android Market. How will Android Market be the great storefront it needs to be with all of these competitors at its door?
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Matt “W4LNUT” Cameron (see contributors page for bio) and I made this video for the guys at mobipad. They also made a sweet video showcasing the product. Our videos are complimentary and showcase different elements of it. Our video would be the viral video hype, while their video would be a great TV ad. Check out our video and let us know what you think.
Music in the video was graciously provided under Creative Commons License by Newgrounds from their Castle Crashers soundtrack.
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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