The Real Future of Mobile Video

Over at The Feature, they had a great article or comment about the real future of mobile video. It says that those who just put content on a mobile phone won't last long. It is okay to watch some TV from time to time on your mobile phone, but that the function is much more workable, if you can use your mobile phone to communicate to the other party. Like in old times with voice, only this time via messaging, or "videoing".

The author brings a couple of great examples - so let's put in some quotes:
"Using the mobile device to record changes the video from a form of content to a type of communication. There are plenty of other ways I can watch the highlights from last night's football game. Most of them are more convenient, a better experience and cheaper than my mobile phone.

However, if I want to give my wife a virtual walk-through of the apartment I'm looking at right now, or show my parents how their granddaughter is starting to crawl, or show my friends that I was just standing across the street from Madonna, there is no better alternative. Journalists and would-be journalists will use the same technology to cover news stories live from the scene.

Users will share popular video clips as MMS messages, the way they ship them around to PCs as email attachments. People will record how-to guides, recipes, and video tours. And they will share their daily experiences in video weblogs, or videoblogs, which are already springing up. A video-enabled cameraphone with the right software and back-end hosting becomes an instant videoblogging factory."