Broadcast events live to a global audience from your phone with ComVu

ComVu promises to change the way we share the video with others, directly with our camera phone.

Have you shot a video on your mobile phone, only to wonder later how are you going to transfer it, share it, keep track of it, all with the gnawing fear of having to delete it to make space for the next one, even before you got a chance to do anything with it. A Qualcomm forecast long ago stated that mobile wireless data demand will exceed 200MB per user per month by this year-end! So, such a problem is only going to get bigger while waiting for a choice of good, practical solutions.

As a ComVu subscriber, you can easily shoot your video, stream the video you shot, to others (practically the whole world) and to your own webpage through its service. You can then use your webpage (hosted by ComVu) to organize, sort, share all the videos you have shot and even create video blogs (coming soon). With a GPS enabled phone, you can even geotag your videos. The ComVu website offers excellent information on how the subscription works.

Privately held, based in Vancouver, Canada, ComVu began the world’s first live Webcasting service for the smartphone on 17 Feb 2005. It boasts of 10 years of experience in providing Webcasting services for Grammys, Emmys, Tony Awards, etc. The support for more devices (other than Windows Mobile) is coming.

This space will have lots of interesting players with variations in offerings. Current competitors of ComVu include Eyespot, Juice Wireless, Veeker, Treemo, vpod.tv and others.

Further Reading:

The Symbian In Motion blog post on ComVu
Keith’s blog post on ComVu
Boris Mann’s blog post regarding ComVu
Reiter’s MobileTV Report comprehensive post on ComVu
Technology Evangelist blog post on ComVu