Telly on my phone! I'm trying out a 3G phone for work. Fortunately for work all the Telstra Active content is free for 2 months, as it's quite expensive. For example a one minute news clip costs about one dollar. And I've been trying out as much content as possible.



So here's my 3G thoughts:
1) Video news is actually not a bad idea - but it feels like one minute isn't long enough and ten minutes is too long. I think a five minute broadcast would be about right.

2) If you're delivering expensive data via phone, it better be right up to date. I just watched an ABC TV item about how Craig Lowndes was feeling confident about winning the Bathurst 1000. He didn't win. Thanks ABC.

3) I'm interested to see how the video phone capability will go. I was sceptical about video on mobiles before, but this is starting to make me change my mind.

4) It all needs to be a lot cheaper. There's no way I'd pay for all this data at these prices.

5) A lot of the content available via Telstra Active didn't actually work - something wrong with the various providers' servers. That's frustrating - where's the quality control?

6) The content needs to be more flexible - I want to choose streams from all over the world and grab it via bookmarks. So all the media companies need to work harder. Or the rest of the world will do it themselves.

Actually, I hope the rest of the world does start making content for mobiles - it's bound to be more interesting than Murdoch's junk.  ¶ 4:23 PM