Today, there are two standardized real-time video communication technologies that are available on commercial mobile handsets: video telephony and video sharing. From questions I receive once in a while from people, it seems like the differences between the two are not that obvious. What is Mobile Video Telephony? Mobile Video Telephony is a circuit switched based technology that uses 3G-324M for bidirectional video calls. It is available on a large (and growing) number of handsets. The way you use it
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 13th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, Technology
VoIP clients on mobile handsets are just starting to happen. At the same time, Linux is becoming an interesting mobile platform. The problem is, Linux is quite fragmented: Android, LiMo, Qtopia are just a few of the many flavors of the popular freely available open source OS. This is not just a fragmentation of distributions, which is the case today for the desktop and enterprise Linux markets, but rather a fragmentation of user interface (UI) frameworks. The mobile UI
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 28th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
We have just announced that Quanta is using our IMS Video Share Application.What is so interesting about this press release? Video Sharing Quanta Windows Mobile Video Sharing [You can learn more about Video Sharing here. Basically - it's a point-to-point service for mobile handsets.] The adoption of Video Sharing by operators is expanding. Video Sharing is an interesting service for 3G mobile handsets - my own feeling is
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 4th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
The developers I work with are back from an interoperability event held by the IMTC. They tested there 3G-324M and IMS Video Share technologies to make sure our products are interoperable. What are the insights from these events? 3G-324M Today, 3G-324M is a stable technology available in almost every 3G handset in Europe and Asia. It is stable, interoperable and working - between different handset vendors, against multiple servers, and through roaming services around the world. There are, however, two
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 31st, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability
