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Nokia N70 - Video blogging

December 17, 2005


So my buddy Andy just sent me this fancy shmancy cell phone that does everything a video blogger would want. The video capture is so easy to use anyone can do it, really... I am not kidding.

Just pull down the camera cover on the back of the phone and you are ready to film. Push the big button in the middle of the phone to start recording and push it again to pause. You now have a video already in MP4 format.

Here is one I shot of my son Kyler as an example, my Mom and Dad are in Australia visiting my bro and my other bro is in Calgary, I thought they would all appreciate thissmile

Kyler - What is that thing?
355x288, Streaming MP4, 2MB, 2min, 500kbps
Click on the image to start the video.
http://sipthat.com/movies/kyler1205.mp4

The audio is pretty good and the quality of the Carl Zeiss 2 megapixel camera is also quite good. I could not get Lifeblog to work, not even for a text posting so uploading the movie from my direct to my blog was a no go, but I am sure I will figure this out. I could not get the USB cable to work with the software on XP either, good thing I have a MMC card reader in my laptop and PC, yes the MAC is comingwink

For me this is a handy tool, good for impromptu interviews and it actually works quite well as a cell phone. It's too bad these manufacturers are still struggling to combine a good keyboard with a multimedia cell phone. I would love to be able to IM on this thing as well but alas the keyboard sucks for that.




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  1. RE: Nokia N70 - Video blogging
    ZuDfunck :
    January 3, 2006 8:00 AM

    I Bluetooth my N90 video to my iMac and then edit using iMovie to my Typepad blog.

    The result is excellent. The content sucks, but that has always been the case.

  1. RE: Nokia N70 - Video blogging
    team :
    January 30, 2006 4:38 AM

    I've been looking at the best way of copying videos e.g. recorded from TV or DVD to my N70.

    Does anyone know the best player for it? Something like mplayer for Symbian would be nice!

  1. RE: Nokia N70 - Video blogging
    smile :
    April 27, 2006 12:52 AM

    AMCap is a small yet fully functional video capture and preview application compatible with Microsoft DirectShow (formerly ActiveMovie, hence the name).

    http://www.yaodownload.com/video-design/videorecorders/amcap_videorecorders.htm

  1. RE: Nokia N70 - Video blogging
    Stu :
    May 17, 2006 12:07 PM

    Hi I was just wondering how do you get such good quality videos on your N70. I have one but when I put the quality as Normal it's ok, when I out it as high the quality is good it's just it's very jumpy and I don't get what the Sharing mode does and even though I have a 1GB stick for my phone it still only records for 11 seconds. Btw when I put the videos on my computer there really good quality but if I'm watching them on my phone they suck! Thanks for your support either post your reply here or email me.

  1. RE: Nokia N70 - Video blogging
    VoIP Phone :
    May 23, 2006 10:47 PM

    the email client is fantastic. It supports IMAP, IMAP-IDLE, and email gets pushed to me as fast as my BlackBerry ever got it. I have no complaints there, really. The input device doesn't even bother me that much because a lot of my email when I'm mobile is consumption anyway, and I rarely have to type out a huge edict or anything unless I'm at a desk.