The BBC’s Darren Waters has written about the pros and cons of using a mobile phone as a reporting tool on the dot.life blog. He has been using a Nokia N95 during a reporting trip to California to test the limits of what is possible with these kind of devices. Overall, as I too have found, the video quality of the N95 is impressive, especially in a well-lit environment. The
PDF The BBC’s recent experiment with mobile journalism is a good example of its multimedia approach to news in action. Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones headed out to the mobile phone industry’s annual shindig in Barcelona to cover the event for TV, radio and online. Given that cellphones were the focus, it proved a suitable event to try out using mobiles as newsgathering tools. The phone was a Nokia N95 which Reuters