Nokia: HD Video On Cell Phones?
The company says it's just a few years away.
By Swanni
That's according to an article by Reuters.
Nokia CTO Tero Ojanpera told the wire service that the feature is "coming (but) we are a couple of years away."
Nokia and other cell phone makers have offered mobiles with video capability for a few years. But Reuters notes that Nokia this year began selling a cell phone (N95) that records TV-quality video.
The company apparently now believes that the global rise in HDTV ownership will create a market for cell phones that can record in high-def. While the small screen is not preferable for viewing high-def images, owners could connect the phone to a HDTV like a camcorder.
If the mobile industry introduces an HD-recording phone, it would compete with a growing list of high-def camcorders from companies such as Panasonic and Sony.
But Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, told Reuters that Nokia has several obstacles ahead of them, notably that the high-def feature could reduce a phone's battery life.
Alan Brown, a Gartner research analyst, said 8-10 percent of cell phones might have HD video features by 2010 or 2011.
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