The principle purpose of this site is to document the cultural shift to a new generation of media (high-speed mobile) over time. Namely, the adoption of 3G Internet-capable cellular phones by the American public and the utilization of video compression software and other PC/Server based tools to generate 3G-Ready Content for the mass market.
Think of AOL before it was connected to the Internet. Around the time of 28.8kbs connections, AOL ran its own content show. Over time, AOL users realized that they could use Yahoo! as their portal and jumped ship to standalone ISPs. Will the 3G carriers be able to do better in keeping their users' content purchases (if they're even paying for them) close to home?
3G Phones integrate high-speed internet with video recording and playback capabilities and all-around multimedia functionality including photos and text entry. Europe and Asia are years ahead of us in this arena, but the truly American spin on it is yet to come. Sprint and Verizon have pushed out this high-end hardware and are letting the content plan catch up as they get in the hands of consumers. This site is here to watch it evolve.
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Keywords: sprint, verizon, samsung, motorola, a900, a920, razor, razr, phone, download, bluetooth, hack, software, cell, cdma, 3g, third gen, generation, ringer, high-speed, phone as modem, vision, internet
Other gadget blogs:
GIZMODO | engadget | the gadget blog
Other Mobile Media blogs:
There is much discussion on other message boards on these topics, but this is an effort to centralize this knowledge ...
This site is the home of my tracking the hackers vs. content providers vs. network providers in the newest mobile technology race - EVDO 3G phones - and their US rollout to mass-market. Specifically, details on loading homemade video and sound on the Samsung A900 and Motorola Razr 3G phones or streaming it from private web sites for personal use.
June 8, 2006: The possibility of a virtual 'huge screen' like this is what will make mobile video explode into the mass-marketplace. This product is currently set up for video Ipod, but you don't need to think too hard to see how it would work on a cell phone.
Click for the USAToday article.
5.2.06 Update:
April 25 (or so) NYTimes
hmmmm.... seems the 'big players' aren't getting the message out. or developing anything luring enough to get people excited. Something will tip the balance - but the infrastructure is out there.
Hot 3G Links - Feb. 27, 2006:
Third-party mobile media company is having trouble launching ... (Feb. 27 forbes article) - Demonstrates the ongoing challenge to break into Verizon & Sprint's media channels:"We have no immediate plans to run that service," says Jeffrey Nelson, spokesman for Verizon Wireless, the country's second-largest carrier. "What runs on our network are our services."
- "How to upload anything to your A900 ... " - new research into the Samsung Phone
- "My life through my cell phone camera " - life documented through cameraphone. When will there be mobile blogs where people can post directly to their blog - via phone - and others view it via phone? (imagine an incoming text msg.- "chk it out - at the club - http://mymobileblog/bobby/") This exists now but only for hackers / techno-elite.
- Encoding Video for the A900 thread
- SUPER© multi-codec Encoder super software!
- http://www.3g.co.uk/3GNewestPhones.htm old list of 3G phones from UK. The US is way late in the game.
- Every Sprint 3g Error Code thread
- QPST2_7.zip < - hack tool
- Unofficial Samsung A900 FAQ
- 3G is OLD NEWS just hitting mass market (from 2004)
Major Sites for research:
- www.sprintusers.com- clearinghouse for new ideas
- www.cellphonehacks.com/
- http://www.bitpim.org/ tool (doesn't work for a900 yet)
- Sprint's EV-DO Page
Key Players in the Mobile Content Revolution:
- ORB
- FOX News Corp (NYTimes article)
- ABC (NYTimes article)
- Sprint PowerVision TV network
- Sling Media
- Google Mobile
- Yahoo! Mobile
- Media Plazza (reseller program for ringtones, etc)
- Real Networks (streaming, encoding)
> The 3ghacks.net messageboard is up! (but empty right now)
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