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| danny |
I am new to mobile development, but is possible to have a website where a user with a 3g phone could connect and download a movie to their phone or are you limited to the 3g site and their partners? If you cannot, can you actually send a movie to their phone? Thanks | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support |
Danny, Don't automatically rule out GPRS. A lot of GPRS phones also have the capability to play video. In general, it's just a matter of getting the MIME type right on your server. "video/3gpp" is the MIME type that I've seen most frequently. If you setup a web server and included links to video clips in that format, and the web server returned the correct MIME type in the HTTP response, then any phone that understands that MIME type would be able to access them. If you want to actually send the video out to the phone, then this can be done with either MMS or WAP push. WAP push sends a pointer to a URL ... whereas MMS sends the content itself. The 3 network in the UK is a bit too unstable for me, so most of my experiments have been with GPRS. Get your hands on a phone like the Nokia 7650 or 3650 which can support simple video clips, and you can do some experimentation. -bn | |||
