Conversa video serviceOne featured demo was Conversa, a mobile video conversation system created by HP Labs (Susie Wee, similing is the lab director) and HP OpenCall software. The system is designed for use with 3G mobile videophone handsets or with a client for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones. It’s a hybrid of a Web 2.0 web site and 3G streaming mobile video service where users
can browse conversations and record responses from any phone or PC. The web site has typical RSS video podcast support, video playback in a web browser, and an open HTTP API to support developers. Conversations with the HP Labs team are time well spent : April Slayden Mitchell, Alex Vorbau (blog), John Apostolopoulos is enriching. Check their paper from ACM's Computer Human Interaction (CHI) proceedings: Consuming video on mobile devices
OpenCall Media PlatformHP introduced a version of OCMP for IMS, keeping the Java and VXML APIs. It can really bridge Web 2.0 open service creation approaches with IMS service control infrastructure. (Left : my colleagues and Wade Haynes and Joe Crispo are looking at an ATCA implementation of OCMP MRF).
H.264 adoptionThe NVIDIA® GoForce graphics processing units that can power mobile phones such as Motorola C, MOTORAZR V, Samsung, Sony Ericsson W900 etc,… They are supporting H.264/MPEG-4 QVGA encoding/decoding at 30 fps. A competitor is TI's OMAP chip driving two display (one for mobile TV and one for telephony control). [TI's estimate is 20% penetration of videophones]. OpenCall SoftDSP performs similar video processing on Intel and AMD processors.
IP video phones
There were a number of demos featuring fixed/mobile video calls. Here the devices from Samsung. Huawei has the Viewpoint 8x IP video phones. IP Unity was demonstrating their Mereon Video mail using IP video phones. The target are business customers but I don't know what the market reaction will be to these devices.
