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Archive for December, 2008
Mogulus launched PRO features
Dec 4th
It had to happen. Mogulus finally launched a PRO option. They will still keep their free service, but in two weeks they will force ads on free channels. For PRO users, some of the news will be HD Quality (1.7 mbps), 16:9, White Label and tools for analytics. For one PRO channel with 25 GB storage and bandwidth, Mogulus will charge 350 dollars. I guess their pricing on bandwidth will be the key factor for success or not.
For a lot of producers, this should be an attractive offer. Being able to design their own player, using their own ad-systems and mixing different types of streams in an easy production environment sounds like an attractive package. I guess that Quality Of Service (QOS) suddenly will be one of the most important service issues for Mogulus. In a free service, you will have to expect a lower quality. When you buy a service, you can demand quality. Leave a comment if you buy the PRO service and tell us what you think.
Will this be an iPhone killer?
Dec 2nd
(Photo: Nokia)
Today Nokia launched their iPhone competitor on the Nokia World 08 in Spain. The Nokia N97 features a big tilting touch screen, sliding QWERTY keyboard and a 32 GB onboard memory.
Nokia calls the N97 the world most advanced mobile computer. It’s clearly aimed at people producing for and viewing content on social platforms.
The N97 comes with a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. Like N96 it comes with two LEDs, not the flash known from N82. The screen can show content in 16:9, but it seems like it only record in 640*480.
Nokia brags about the video recording quality, calling it DVD quality. I don’t believe it until I see it. The Nokia N96 was supposed to be better than N95 and N82, but in my opinion it’s really bad. It will be exciting to see if they have upped the video recording quality on N97. If they can’t produce better video quality, several years after the launched the N95, it will be really disappointing. From N95/N82 to N96, they among other things changed the recording codec, producing bigger files, but not better video quality.
The on-board memory is increased to 32 GB. You can even expand it with a 16 GB microSD card. The phone runs Symbian 60 5th edition. You will se a lot of iPhone like features with flipping and flopping in the menus.
Besides a 5 megapixel camera, the phone of course have WIFI, HSDPA and GPS. The battery is a lot bigger than on N82 and N96.
As usual, you will have to wait a bit for the N97. It’s supposed to hit the market in the first half of 2009. That probably means in June next year.
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