Kearney and the University of Cambridge's business school showed that among multimedia phone users, slow network speeds, along with cost and privacy concerns, are the top three obstacles to greater use of wireless data services.
Laptop docking stations are so early-2000s, as Sony Ericsson has already patented what is essentially a docking station for your cellphone, dubbing it a Mobile Phone Multimedia Cradle.
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He's the co-founder of Eyespot, a YouTube-lookalike startup with a twist: Its users can already send short videos to any mobile phone using multimedia messaging, which is offered standard with most phones, regardless of network or brand.
It features the industry's leading mobile email and messaging solution together with an exceptional phone organizer and advanced multimedia applications.
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But Espelien believes they will choose Android because of its open nature, noting they will be able to access PacketVideo's multimedia tools as well as the phone's contact lists, calendar and phone dialer.
They may also involve a greater number of phone features, such as multimedia capture.
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Sound is recorded in stereo, another feather in the Sensation's multimedia hat, though we found the phone unusually prone to picking up wind noise.
To be sure, Consumer Reports gives the phone high marks for its screen, its multimedia capabilities, and digital music capabilities.
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Most of those features relate to streaming media, including the ability to take high definition-quality video from the phone and share it via High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and access to high-definition YouTube videos.
This tiny Bluetooth 2.1 controller is actually a jack of all trades device as it will control your phone, tablet or PC for gaming, multimedia control, remote camera trigger and even help find your keys -- via a free app -- if you lose them.
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Instead of ditching one phone or the other, a corps of professional multimedia types have concluded, Why not keep both?
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All in all, the addition of TouchWiz seems poorly considered (aside from the camera controls and, perhaps, the multimedia -- more on that below), adding nothing to the phone but poor performance and an at-times jarring user experience.
The phone will sport a dual-lens camera for 3D recording and multimedia connections including HDMI and DLNA that will let users stream 3D video to TV screens and computer monitors.
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"It was the first design where we said 'let's not start with a phone'", said Richard Sharp, Nokia's vice president of multimedia.
For instance, HTML5 supports geolocation, makes Web forms easier to fill out on your phone, supports coding scripts that enable custom features, and it also loads multimedia elements faster in Web pages.
"Open source has become an engine for innovation in the smart phone and consumer electronics market, " said Teppo Hemia, vice president, 3G Multimedia Platforms Business Unit of ST-Ericsson.
It could be a single device with various multimedia goodies: digital camera, video recorder, gaming device, wireless device, and cell phone although knowing Apple's penchant for maintaining simple interfaces, it's also likely we could see a whole lineup of multimedia devices catering to specific niches, complete with a common development platform for the fleet of Alphamosaic-based iPods.
While the BlackBerry's plastic keyboard and tight integration with corporate e-mail systems makes it an unbeatable e-mail machine, Nielsen Mobile's first-quarter data show that the iPhone is all about multimedia, playing music, video and online games far above the average usage of those services for other mobile phone users.
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