Re: The Swiss Army Knife of cell phones - Video Phones
I agree. I saw prototype phones from a Korean company (manufacturer) about 2 years ago. They were not camera phones but had capability of downloading a 2 hour movie and able to pick up TV (with a little card inserted - like a memory stick only for TV reception).
Many people (IT types that MUST have the latest PDA/MP3/cell phone) who would have been first adopters of those phones are still laid off or underemployed so they are targeted teens to "be the first one" to send pics of their boy or girl firends to others.
No one is going to buy something they are restricted to use.
I don't know if the limitations are in the cell phones or what but - if you could get them to use mpeg4 128Kbit for the medium - The video is quite good - certainly good enough to just talk to your girlfriend or parents while out of town or something
Check out cspan.org - they use 128Kbit real/wimp I think they are basically mpeg4 the streams are pretty good if you ask me
