MMS Podcasts
February 5, 2005Mobile Podcasting - MMS is now standard on all mobiles along with voice recorders, most of these recordings are in .amr but as I have noticed when you send a sound clip to your email it converts it automatically to .wav which is a handy shortcut, but what if there was the be a mobile podcast community? A place where you could get Podcasts delivered directly to your mobile, allowing you to stay away from your computer and never have the need to purchase an MP3 player.
For this to work for the whole community (e.g. subscribers through RSS) we will have to wait until Mobiles come with MP3 recorders that are affordable for everyone so they can be included in your feeds. When this happens it could be the first money making attempt to succeed from Podcasting. People can subscribe to your show which you record on the move on your mobile. They subscribe by topping up your mobile and you send them your latest podcasts for a month to their mobile. Another barrier which whas gone which helps the spread of mobile podcasting is that you can now send MMS messages from O2 to Meteor and visa versa, I’m not sure if Vodafone allows this at the moment.
Having just tried it out from my o2 Sony Ericsson (which allows for ten minutes of recording time) to my Meteor Motorola V300 the sound quality was clear to hear and of a good standard. If a podcast was to be a maximum of ten minutes people would get tried of holding their mobile to their ear and just listening to content. People don’t realise it as much when they are interacting with people over mobiles. So couldn’t there be and Bluetooth option that allows you to listen to podcasts. Just insert your headset, leave you mobile in your pocket and keep your hands free for the shopping bags.
