NEWS Nokia has begun shipping a camera phone with video-editing and mobile-blogging features in Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.
The phone maker said its 7610 phone can capture, edit, store, print and send pictures and videos. The handset comes with a Kodak application designed to let users upload pictures to a virtual photo album on the web. Images can be printed using a Bluetooth connection to a compatible printer or at kiosks at Nokia stores and other photo shops.
Nokia recently announced a site called Lifeblog that lets subscribers archive mobile phone photos in chronological order, along with other data, including text, video and audio, using a personal mobile web log, or 'moblog'.
With camera phones becoming more popular, service providers are setting up moblogs that let users transfer pictures from their phones onto the net.
Using the 7610 phone, videos up to 10 minutes in duration can be shot and edited, and music and text can be added on the camera. Digital content created on the camera may be organised and transferred to a PC, allowing consumers to browse and search their multimedia 'diary' and share those items with friends or family through email.
Dinesh C Sharma writes for CNET News.com.
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1. John Hauxwell
Without much ado all I have to say is www.phlog.net
Whilst this is a shameless plug for this site it does offer a simple, effective and well managed solution for photo blogging, as well as text and eventually video (you know its a good idea Al. You can submit files by MMS and of course by email
I use this service and enjoy the community feel of the site.
I tried to set up Vodafones pictre library service and it never worked for me!
One other thing, phlogs a free service. Gotta love that!
2. Brenda Bargain
Hmmm, another great innovation from a major company: you can see why they lobby so hard for those software patents they need to protect their creative investment ...
... except that neither the word nor the idea are actually new, and neither was invented by Nokia.
Ericcson, for example, have offered a service call moblog for ages, as have Libero (an Italian ISP linked to Wind, a mobile telephony provider).
30 seconds reserch on Google would also have revealed a history of the term:
<URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblog >
and an 18-month-old article on the subject in the Guardian:
<URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/webwatch/story/0,12455,858719,00.html >
Oh dear...
3. anonymous
Well, its Nokia though, so theres a lot in this to do with increasing ARPA and generating that much needed MMS based revenue.
This is the way for the public to do it in my opine.
<a href="http://moblg.net">a free, creative commons, audio video and image based moblog system, based in the UK</a>