3G movies

just bought a new phone, an NEC N412i, witha COLOUR SCREEN and did my first conversion of a movie clip to 3G using Quicktime Pro. It converted an 86 second full quality DV clip (720 x 576 pixels, 300 mb) - a promo for our college's courses - to an 812 kb 176x144 pixel 3G movie. The audio went to 8 khz mono.

Of course at that size it all looks and sounds a bit dodgy, but I've been hoping to try this stuff for ages and now I'll be able to play with both the image and audio parameters. And folk will think it's very amazing when I show them this week. (if they only knew how easy it is to select the 3G export presets...)

I think that being able to send short sharp communications like this is fantastic. of course, I am drawn to new stuff regardless - an 'early adopter', as they say - apart from when it comes to personal technology....

we've have the same 34 cm TV, a hand-me down, for probably 20 years...
we still have the Denon CD player that we bought as a shop demo in 1992 (mind you, it was top of the range back then)...
only this year we retired Yvonne's 25 year old Pioneer amp (when I bought an $80 second hand Rotel amp that's 30 years old and its brilliant) (well, actually, I did have an excellent Marantz amp and Acoustic Research speakers back in 1979 but I sold them so I could do the full-time-study-for-God-thing)

but I digress...

so I'm looking forward to playing with the whole 3G thing in terms of purpose, format and file size.

is anyone else doing that?