The beginning of it all was the sub par digital light capture sensor protected with a “made in China” plastic shield absurdly labeled lens, packaged all together and marketed as Phone-with a-Camera.
With time, the marriage between phone and camera was nothing like most of that of it’s human counterparts; It blossomed, grew more intricate and interdependent , finally giving birth to their love child the term Camera-Phone

We now find 5 Mega Pixel camera phones,  with lenses from heavy weights like Carl Zeiss boasting optical zoom and advance compact flash systems.
Even the controlling software is now capable of on the fly image stabilization, Impressive color balance calculations and ever more focusing on refining video capture capabilities.
In fact some upcoming cell phone prototypes are really gunning after Video capture, boasting realistic frame rates , good pixel density and in some cases, EDTV output .

On the other front, we have the current renaissance in the mobile internet market.
Make no mistake we are in the Henry Ford days of mobile internet connectivity . People more than ever are demanding their data  like their food: On the go and all experienced on-the-go food makers know, the faster you serve it, the more they’ll gobble up !

It’s only a matter of time before destiny throws camera and phone’s love child, camera-phone , into the path of WAP’s latest descendants, 3 and 4G, spawning an incredible array of cutting edge offspring’s with great derivatives .

Imagine sharing breath taking views seen from Italy’s Capri in real time HDTV quality with your loved ones back home.
Picture herds of enthusiasts streaming video from a across the globe to single web server for the masses to view creating a decentralized, truly democratic and sponsor free news network:  Wikipedia on steroids.

Mentioning only two obvious possibilities we connect the dots and come to see with little effort the fruits created by the fast mobile Internet revolution and quality mobile video’s evolution will not only be cutting edge and very useful in their application but most importantly very humanistic in our social sense , enabling all of us to come even closer than ever in an ever more globalizing world.

Get ready for the new Generation of Mobile Broadcast Units.

AT&T announced plans to boost the speed of its 3G wireless network (High speed internet for mobile phones) to speeds of 20 megabits per second in 2009, say it ain’t so !

It so is ! and it gets better:

AT&T’s mobility chief, De la Vega, also said that his firm has “a clear and logical path” to 700MHz 4G access by 2010 , which could theoretically allow 100 megabits per second !

100 megabits per second , eh ? So using the following formula:

Laptop (Macbook preferably) + Bluetooth + 4G capable headset = End of Wifi ??

I’m keeping my ear to the grind stone…