Mobile Journalism

Have you ever found yourself experiencing something extraordinary without having any means to capture and share it? You become the eyewitness to dramatic events or you want to share a special moment with the people that matter to you.

Now all you need to do is grab your Nokia device from your pocket. Mobile devices free us to capture stories where and as they happen. Your mobile enables you to be always connected, so you can capture and share the stories you see as they happen, where they happen.

Nokia Mobile Journalism Software Toolkit in use in Nokia N95 devices.

Today, professional journalists are using Nokia mobile devices to capture their stories and sending the story, pictures and video wirelessly from the story’s locaton. By posting their stories using their mobile the stories can be in moments on the news wires, in print and on the web. A group of Reuters’ reporters have participated in trials over the last year, using Nokia N82 and Nokia N95 devices, to record video, take photos and capture news at events such as the Davos World Economic Forum 2008. and the twists and turns of the early stages of the US presidential campaign. The lastest use was at the Beijing Olympics.

Nokia Media Laboratory has worked with Reuters to create a mobile journalism application and toolkit. The application uses the multimedia – sound, photographic and video capabilities - of the Nokia Nseries devices, and provides the journalist with tools for text editing and live video streaming. The context of the story - location, time, date - is automatically captured using the device’s GPS, calendar and clock. This automatic metatagging speeds up the journalists’ posting of the story.

The story is then posted to Reuters via the mobile’s Internet connectivity. This Internet connectivity is fast, seamless, and always-on. Nokia’s devices provide mobile broadband - with technologies like WCDMA (Wideband CDMA), HSPA (High Speed Packet Access), and Wi-Fi - to ensure the journalists stay connected.

In the future, new radio technologies like LTE (Long Term Evolution) and WiMax will bring even faster connection speeds and more economical use of bandwidth. LTE and Wimax will provide you with mobile broadband 20 times faster than the speed of today’s US home broadband connection. (Average US connection is 4.9Mbps - Source ITIF 2008, LTE potential is greater than 100Mbps).

If you want capture and share your stories, videos and photos on the Internet from your mobile then try Share on Ovi – read more about Share on OVI To stream live video from your mobile to the Internet, try Kyte, this service will enable you to broadcast live to your own channel.