Mobile Media
Mobile media is a form that is constantly being pushed and discussed in media but something i have personally never found much use for or interest in the works or formats that are being developed. For the most part it seems the phone companies and media makers know they have this product that is widespread in society and compatible with video, audio, internet etc. but they can't seem to develop must have media to use on it. As a user there are very few video functions i want to watch on my mobile phone, ipod or other portable device with a tiny screen. Live sports or news highlights, short youtube videos to show friends and perhaps movie trailers are all i could stand watching on a small screen.
The iPhone (something i know Jeremy is writing on) is an interesting concept for mobile media as it seeks as a product to bring better uses of mobile functions toward the ipod and apple product design. While the first iphone has limited functions the upcoming iphone sounds a little better. While it is primarily a phone, one problem i have with the concept is the lack of memory it currently holds, with 8gb or 16gb being quite low when being marketed partly as a music player when i have a hard drive with around 200gb of music. As a user, I dont really want to carry around both an ipod and iphone, although the GPS and internet capabilities seem to be much better than other phones on the market (with tiny screens and huge internet costs).
When Mobile, really i want to be able to carry music rather than video, with the form being much better suited to public use, and I also want a phone that works effectively rather than tries to have too many functions that are not relevant to mobility or public use, most of the companies producing these products don't really seem to get that.
Posted by Nicko Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:01:00 GMT