Smartphones and Mobile Media

Create Mobile Mediawith your Cell Phone
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What is a Smartphone?
“A mobile phone or connected handheld device that uses a high-level operating system, including iPhone OS, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile, PalmOS, WebOS, Symbian, and any flavor of Linux including Android.”
-Forrester Research

2010: Year of the Smartphone?
1/3 U.S. adults own a smartphone or QMD
(Quick Messaging Device)
-Forrester Research

A Brief Background
Nokia phones were among the first to allow live Web streaming (www.qik.com)
iPhone 3GS allow live streaming via Ustream.tv + application
Other applications allow video uploading to web (www.kyte.tv, www.twitvid.com)
Another option is to e-mail video

Cell Phones Break News
2007 Virginia Tech Shooting
2009 Hudson Plane Crash (Twitpic)

Other Notable Phone Facts
Dec. 2008 - First Music Video Shot with iPhone
June 2009 - iPhone 3GS Shoots News (WFOR)
Aug. 2009 - Jeremy Jojola Shoots Live Shot
Dec. 2009 - Ustream.tv Releases Live iPhone App.

Creating Mobile Media
Create an account – Website (video/photo)
Download mobile application
Sign on to account with your phone application
Capture media
Use application to upload to the web
Hint: Use Twitter to share link + hashtag

Best Practices: Cell Phone Video
Raw Video (un-edited) 1-2 minutes max.
Minimize background noise for interviews (no mic)
Watch lighting
Interviews: ask no more than 3 questions
Hold camera as still as possible

Create Mobile Mediawith your Cell Phone
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@visualeyemedia
@urbanreporter

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Smartphones and Mobile Media

by Amani Channel on Jan 29, 2010

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