Nokia debuts one megapixel camera phone with 10 minutes of video

From The Register and InfoSync I see that Nokia at CeBIT announced the 7610, a one megapixel (1152 x 864) GSM camera phone with another strange-looking keypad that also can produce videos as long as ten minutes.

By using Nokia's Movie Director software, videos can be editing for special effect by adding text, music and colors. The software can combine multiple videos for a ten-minute video that is stored in the 8MB of internal memory and a 64MB "reduced size" MultiMediaCard.

Lifeblog

The 7610 also is bundled with LifeBlog (see below) -- a multimedia Weblog that's stored on your phone and computer -- not on a remote server, like typical Weblogs and moblogs. It's a daily journal of, well, your life, that can contain SMS, photos, audio, videos, etc. -- just about anything the phone can receive or produce.

Nokia definitely does not want people to think of LifeBlog as a Weblog. It's something different. It's more than "just" a Weblog. You can't store the information on the Web, but you can store it on a computer and create an automatic timeline of your life.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the future there was a Web tie-in. For information, check out Christian Lindholm's description, an article in The Guardian and a BBC article. Lindholm is director of multimedia applications at Nokia Ventures.

Like it?

I think Lifeblog has interesting possibilities. You might immediately think, "Who would want to document their daily lives?" Most people wouldn't. But what about special events? What about birthdays, weddings, births, etc.?

You might want to carry an eight megapixel digital camera and a super duper video camera, but many more people will be carrying camera phones. In addition, you can transfer those digital camera still photos and camcorder videos to Lifeblog in your computer and from there to your handset.

The handset-based Lifeblog is a stripped down version of the PC application.

Kodak photo album

Also bundled with the 7610 is a Kodak Mobile application for transmitting photos to an online photo album and ordering prints. This isn't new. Cingular, Nokia and Kodak last year announced they were working together.

As I just wrote about the Siemens announcements, the Nokia 7610 and other Nokia efforts illustrate how the camera phone business is producing an enormous number of interesting products and services. Not all will succeed, but this is a tremendously vibrant global market.

(I will be moderating a panel on User Originated Content -- camera phone photos, SMS, videos, music, etc. -- next week on Tuesday, March 23, 3:30 p.m - 5:00 p.m. at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2004 conference and
exhibition in Atlanta.)

For more analysis

For more detailed comments about the Nokia 7610, check out Russell Beattie's discussion.

Comments

[mohammed]

my nokia phone was nearly gona finsh update and it just shutdown no one now why i have a lot of phone i updated and it woks perfect

[Anvar babu]

it is which i have enquired. I want to install this vedio editing,and sharpenimages softwares to install in device of 7610