Nokia and Reuters: Mobile journalism trials a success
Mikey 3 comments
Nokia and Reuters have just finished trialling the potential for a mobile journalist toolkit.
The toolkit which was given to several journalists consists of a Nokia N95 mobile phone (for it's high quality capture ability), a Nokia SU-8W foldable bluetooth keyboard, a tripod, a Sony microphone for direction sound recording, and a Power Monkey for portable power.
With the trials now complete, Nokia and Reuters have plans to teach 'citizen journalism' to students. More power to them.
Yeah I thought about that too. But the equipment in question weights zilch and could easily fit everything in a fanny bag (sans the tripod of course).
Being an N95 user myself I gotta say it's pretty damned good. At the moment there is nothing stopping me from posting all my content from the phone and I recently created a https://rustylime.com/mobile/">mobile version of this site to make that task easier.
The foldable keyboard would be great though and I think I will probably get one because the thought of using an alpha numeric keypad to compose an article isn't appealing :-) Some days I only turn my computer on so I can publish new content. I already do my email from my N95 so I may as well start publishing content from it as well.
All up I like the initiative. The thought of being able to blog or report from your phone with minimal equipment has to be appealing to a lot of people.
andrew
Saturday 27th October 2007 | 08:18 PMso does this mean a phone will replace a pc? in future time?
Jake
Friday 26th October 2007 | 02:16 PMThis is very cool, though I would have thought that laptops would have been as efficient!