mobbur
05-06-2008, 11:45 PM
As 3G phone is well entrenching on the realm of conventional handset market, watching movie on-the-go has become a kind of fashion. It has been some days since the 3G network got set up in many countries, and many of the public, especially the pop chasers (I’m not one of them, frankly) really enjoy it, coz it offers a freshly higher speed for surfing the web.
As we bring any type of 3GP cell phone, browsing web pages, downloading blocks of files, having visual chat with our hot friends, or using our smart phone as a portable radio to receive radio signals from another continent, have any of us consider about the simple question, what 3GP really is? Definitely, there is a large portion of us do not have a clear concept of it yet.
I’m just not an insider of 3GP, but I have really enough curiosity forcing me to explore it. And it might be of potential use for me, since several months ago I rushed into a phone shop and bought a Nokia N95 to replace another mobile phone which got worn out after 3 years of crazy utilization. As many of you know, N95 might be now the top of 3GP phones.
3GP is a kind of file format, same as general format AVI, ASF, DivX, MOV, RM, RMVB. Literally, 3GP or .3gp is the third generation video standard. It is a multimedia container format defined by 3GPP (the 3rd Generation Partnership Project) for use on 3G mobile phones. It is a simplified version of MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4). 3GP files have the filename extension .3gp or .3g2.
3GP stores video streams as MPEG-4 or H.263, and audio streams as AMR-NB or AAC-LC formats. 3GP files are always big-endian. 3GP also describes image sizes and bandwidth, so content is correctly sized for mobile display screens. MPEG-4 Part 14, formally, is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most-commonly used to store digital audio and digital video streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but also can be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet. The official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, thus the container format is often referred to simply as MP4.
That’s a brief concept I got about 3GP, now let’s turn to my impression of N95. Maybe it can live up to the requirement of the designers and the producers, since it combines so many dazzling and jewelry functions, but it just can’t live up to its master, me. It seems so excellent and powerful on ads, but when delivered to my hands, it became silly and disobedient. That’s all because of the bugs.
One bug I have experienced consistently is receiving a call when listening to music. The phone crashes just after the call ends and I cannot do anything till the phone restarts on its own (after about 1minute) or I remove the battery and reinsert it.
Another obvious bug is that when making calls on the phone without a headset there is high pitched sound. It is not loud but obvious enough to be annoying. I can't hear it using headphones or Bluetooth though.
The battery is also easy to get exhausted, especially when playing music or running some huge software and it has never been 24 hours without recharging it. But one of my friends told me that my experience is fairly well, since he has to recharge his N95 every 7-8 hours. Well, I really don’t know what he uses it for, a whip or a puddler?
Like the original N93, many third party apps will still crash if I switch orientation during operation. Some will work though, if I switch to landscape first and then open it. I will just have to get used to not switching screen orientation on certain applications.
Well, if I go on list the defections, there must be some that you have ever encountered. And then you must have the same feeling with me, complaining about its flaws while just cannot desert it, since it has so much top functions and bring us so much enjoyment.
It has a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, built-in A-GPS, WLAN, HSDPA and an innovative 2-way slide, up to eight gigabytes of built-in memory. It also boasts a new luminous 2.8” QVGA display - one of the largest ever for a multimedia computer - so that watching videos, browsing the Internet or viewing maps is easy. With its expanded memory, I can store up to 20 hours of video. As a 3GP phone, it can smoothly play movies in the format of MPEG-4、H.264/AVC、H.263/3GPP、RealVideo 8/9/10. It’s really a pity that N95 does not have all the common codecs; otherwise I would put my PC away, and watch movies on it every day.
I have dreamed several times to view videos of any format on N95, but it’s frankly unrealistic. No portable phone has that versatile built-in media player with so comprehensive codecs. But there are some efficient and applicable software I can resort to, like 3GP converter software to convert any format of video to the format that N95 is willing to accept. A sworn friend told me to download a video converter named Xilisoft 3GP Video Converter. I downloaded one for free trial, and after installation, I also found a wizard for guiding operation, but it’s not free either.
After trial, I got that it worked just as the instruction said. It’s versatile and easy to use, and offers many humanized settings which make the operation even more convenient.
While, it’s really a pity that the trial version has many limitations, like only to convert 2 minutes of each file, and the duration and start time can’t be changed. Generally speaking, with its multifunction, Xilisoft 3GP Video Converter didn’t let me down. It worked always efficiently, smoothly and obediently, never strike for brake, but it’s just for Windows OS, not the Symbian OS of N95, otherwise it may be installed to my cell phone, and all the procedure of downloading, converting and viewing videos will be carried out conveniently, and I can leave PC away forever. Sooner may a new version for Symbian OS be published.
All in all, it’s qualified as one of Nokia N95 applications, and should be shared with all the N95 owners.
As we bring any type of 3GP cell phone, browsing web pages, downloading blocks of files, having visual chat with our hot friends, or using our smart phone as a portable radio to receive radio signals from another continent, have any of us consider about the simple question, what 3GP really is? Definitely, there is a large portion of us do not have a clear concept of it yet.
I’m just not an insider of 3GP, but I have really enough curiosity forcing me to explore it. And it might be of potential use for me, since several months ago I rushed into a phone shop and bought a Nokia N95 to replace another mobile phone which got worn out after 3 years of crazy utilization. As many of you know, N95 might be now the top of 3GP phones.
3GP is a kind of file format, same as general format AVI, ASF, DivX, MOV, RM, RMVB. Literally, 3GP or .3gp is the third generation video standard. It is a multimedia container format defined by 3GPP (the 3rd Generation Partnership Project) for use on 3G mobile phones. It is a simplified version of MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4). 3GP files have the filename extension .3gp or .3g2.
3GP stores video streams as MPEG-4 or H.263, and audio streams as AMR-NB or AAC-LC formats. 3GP files are always big-endian. 3GP also describes image sizes and bandwidth, so content is correctly sized for mobile display screens. MPEG-4 Part 14, formally, is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most-commonly used to store digital audio and digital video streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but also can be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet. The official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, thus the container format is often referred to simply as MP4.
That’s a brief concept I got about 3GP, now let’s turn to my impression of N95. Maybe it can live up to the requirement of the designers and the producers, since it combines so many dazzling and jewelry functions, but it just can’t live up to its master, me. It seems so excellent and powerful on ads, but when delivered to my hands, it became silly and disobedient. That’s all because of the bugs.
One bug I have experienced consistently is receiving a call when listening to music. The phone crashes just after the call ends and I cannot do anything till the phone restarts on its own (after about 1minute) or I remove the battery and reinsert it.
Another obvious bug is that when making calls on the phone without a headset there is high pitched sound. It is not loud but obvious enough to be annoying. I can't hear it using headphones or Bluetooth though.
The battery is also easy to get exhausted, especially when playing music or running some huge software and it has never been 24 hours without recharging it. But one of my friends told me that my experience is fairly well, since he has to recharge his N95 every 7-8 hours. Well, I really don’t know what he uses it for, a whip or a puddler?
Like the original N93, many third party apps will still crash if I switch orientation during operation. Some will work though, if I switch to landscape first and then open it. I will just have to get used to not switching screen orientation on certain applications.
Well, if I go on list the defections, there must be some that you have ever encountered. And then you must have the same feeling with me, complaining about its flaws while just cannot desert it, since it has so much top functions and bring us so much enjoyment.
It has a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, built-in A-GPS, WLAN, HSDPA and an innovative 2-way slide, up to eight gigabytes of built-in memory. It also boasts a new luminous 2.8” QVGA display - one of the largest ever for a multimedia computer - so that watching videos, browsing the Internet or viewing maps is easy. With its expanded memory, I can store up to 20 hours of video. As a 3GP phone, it can smoothly play movies in the format of MPEG-4、H.264/AVC、H.263/3GPP、RealVideo 8/9/10. It’s really a pity that N95 does not have all the common codecs; otherwise I would put my PC away, and watch movies on it every day.
I have dreamed several times to view videos of any format on N95, but it’s frankly unrealistic. No portable phone has that versatile built-in media player with so comprehensive codecs. But there are some efficient and applicable software I can resort to, like 3GP converter software to convert any format of video to the format that N95 is willing to accept. A sworn friend told me to download a video converter named Xilisoft 3GP Video Converter. I downloaded one for free trial, and after installation, I also found a wizard for guiding operation, but it’s not free either.
After trial, I got that it worked just as the instruction said. It’s versatile and easy to use, and offers many humanized settings which make the operation even more convenient.
While, it’s really a pity that the trial version has many limitations, like only to convert 2 minutes of each file, and the duration and start time can’t be changed. Generally speaking, with its multifunction, Xilisoft 3GP Video Converter didn’t let me down. It worked always efficiently, smoothly and obediently, never strike for brake, but it’s just for Windows OS, not the Symbian OS of N95, otherwise it may be installed to my cell phone, and all the procedure of downloading, converting and viewing videos will be carried out conveniently, and I can leave PC away forever. Sooner may a new version for Symbian OS be published.
All in all, it’s qualified as one of Nokia N95 applications, and should be shared with all the N95 owners.