Droplet Technology has announced a software-based Personal Mobile Video service to be showcased at CTIA (News - Alert) 2008. This new release interoperates on devices from multiple handset manufacturers, uses multiple operating systems and interoperates between AT&T and Verizon (News - Alert) 3G networks.

 

Droplet also plans to introduce a browser-based video player to eliminate the need for video transcoding. To be announced at CTIA, this solution combines both handset client and hosted server applications.

As an all-software solution, it unifies and enhances mobile video communications, user-generated content, and social networking through high-quality video capture, editing, uploading, video messaging, and real-time video sharing directly from mobile handsets.

 

“Being able to capture full-size and full frame-rate video on your cell phone, mash it up with music, graphics, photos, and other videos, and then upload it to the Web or send it to a friend, on-the-fly, is already quite an achievement, but having it all processed through software without the need for any specialized video processing hardware is phenomenal,” John Ralston, President and CEO of Droplet Technology (News - Alert) said in a Tuesday statement.

 

“At the end of 2007, more than half of the world’s population were using cell phones – 3.3 billion users - and that number will continue to grow for years to come. For all these cell phone users, sending user generated videos will be as common as text messaging is today.”

The mobile video client from Droplet is positioned as the first all-software solution for mobile handsets to integrate full VGA/30 fps camcorder functionality with real-time video communications and user-generated video applications.

 

In addition, by freeing mobile video service infrastructure from its traditional dependency on specialized video processing hardware and merging multiple mobile video services into a single unified platform, Droplet’s new server software can support a higher number of concurrent users in each server box to reduce the cost and complexity of deployment.

Droplet aims to continue to set new benchmarks in demonstrating their ability to provide a common user experience across multiple devices, operating systems and networks. The company’s showcase is targeting the growing urgency among mobile operators, Internet portals, and device/service providers to enhance the performance and profitability of mobile video handsets and services.

Droplet’s Personal Mobile Video services are expected to enter commercial deployment in the second half of 2008. The company is currently in partnership talks with a variety of mobile video service providers. Droplet’s platform will also provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to 3^rd party content provider and advertisers.