DivX Mobile Player 1.0 for N97, 5800, Symbian now available

DivX Mobile Player 1.0 for Symbian now available

Divx has just release a version that should finally work out of the box for the N97 and other Symbian 5 products.

Review of iMovie for iPhone4

Hello fellow video enthusiasts,

A few years ago Nokia introduced very quietly an application called Muvee. This very nice application allowed the users of an N93 or N95 to create movies wholly within their phones.

The application allowed to put Music, transitions, texts, captions, credits, pictures, etc. It was really great except for two small problems:

1. It was really slow due mostly to slow CPUs. A movie of more than 15 minutes long will bring the phone literally to its knees.
2. It was very easy to crash the application, which really annoyed me because you would lose all the work you've done :(

Still, for very short clips (less than say 5 minutes) it was "doable" specially if the source videos were all shot at low resolution QVGA or less. And it showed that a full blown Video Editor was possible in a mobile computer (er, phone).

Nokia decided to drop the Video Editing functions even from the N95 as newer versions of Firmware did away with the Muvee application. So now most users don't even know that this marvel was possible in Nokia.

The N8 is rumored to include the Video Editing function. Until I can get my hands on one I'll hold judgement.

For now if you want to try Video Editing your best option seem to be to get an iPhone 4 and purchase (yes purchase as it's not included) the iMovie from the App Store.

Our friends from The Register have reviewed this little app. So head over there and read up.

Minor changes and polls re-opened

I've been thinking what could be the next big thing to do with this blog, but still not so sure.

I want to get some ideas from the readers. I know most people go tot he DIVX N97 post and then bail out but hopefully some will see this post and comment.

I also re-opened some of the previous polls so feel free to cast your vote. It's always interesting to see how people from all over the world think.


Cheerio!