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Nokia 3650 as a tool for Newsgathering

1 replies · 1,281 views · Started 23 November 2002

This thread included a poll: Is this feasible?

I would be very grateful if you could comment on the feasibility of a proposal that I am working on:

I work for BBC News and am applying for funds to develop the 3650 for Newsgathering purposes. The requirement is for video-phone or better quality video and audio streamed from the handset directly into the transmission gallery from where it would be transmitted live. There would need to be 2-way audio to allow for interviewing. This would need to be in real time. There could only be a small delay in the circuit so buffering would be minimal.
Some questions I have are:

Can this be achieved - would it work with HSCSD as well as GRPS?

How big a delay would be experienced? Would the lack of a large buffer cause problems? (It would not be too much of a problem if the frame froze as long as this was infrequent and short but the audio would need to be continuous)

What sort of bandwidth would be available for video - how much of an improvement would there be over the T-Mobile video application?

What is the coverage of HSCSD in Europe and is 43kbps typically realised?

When and how broadly is GRPS going to be available?

Thanks for your contributions.

Justen

Imho it should be great for newsgathering, but I can't imagine anything close to what you suggest. Video-conferencing on GPRS/HSCSD? Can't imagine with 56kbps BEST (more realistic are ~20-30 kbps, here in Austria at least). Better wait for UMTS. But it would be great for news-sites or especially personnel blogs. A nice article on that matter can be found here.