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Digital Video Cell Phones
By Trevor | July 7, 2007
Cell phones have come a long way since the early days when they were bulky machines, you can now even get digital video cell phones quite cheaply.
But camera phones are nothing new, they have been making the headlines recently with kids using them to film bullying scenes.
Not the ideal form of promotion the makers of digital video cameras wanted but it certainly doesn’t seem to have harmed them.
It appears that the future has finally arrived, and it is most certainly here to stay. Did you know that digital video cell phones are now able to display streaming video that is sent over the wireless networks?
One of the first companies to perfect the technology was Samsung. They were first past the post in making the technology cheap and efficient enough to sell to the general public.
The basis for the technology is the MPEG-4 standard, digital video cell phones now allow download of video via email for the owner to view on its small screen.
So who wants to make use of this technology? After all viewing a small screen for any length of time is not easy on the eyes and battery life is quickly drained by video.
However, digital video cell phones have been used as eyewitness testimony by the police!
Take for example a case in Orange Country, Florida, where a school deputy got into a scuffle with a teen who was suspended from Colonial High School. The suspended teen ended up getting stunned with a stun gun and then sprayed with pepper spray.
One of his classmates recorded the incident on his digital video cell phone and this tape has been hitting the Florida airwaves.
Other interesting uses may be to avoid parking charges, how about proving you were inside the line, or that the parking warden ignored five other cars parked in the same way?
Alternatively, you could claim against your local authority for dangerous paving or buildings to get them to fix them quicker!
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