Wishing 3GP on the iPhone

IT IS A CHALLENGE making video clips play on multiple devices when the clips originate from multiple sources. Specifically, it is irritating to work around the iPhone's inability to play 3GP video clips, the standard most mobile phones use to create shareable content at the lowest cost to bandwidth. I make several video clips every day on my Nokia E90 (at left with its baby sister, the iPhone) but since the iPhone is a prototype video playback platform, it won't play those 3GP clips until I encode them again on my Windows XP laptop. At Tipperary Institute, we are trying to put video storyboarding into the hands of creative multimedia students with no requirement to use a desktop system as part of the first part of the collaborative process. Because the iPhone fails to facilitate this collaborative process, we cannot recommend its use as a primary device in the making of creative shareable content.

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