This is what AT&T has in mind with the launch of AT&T Video Share, a service that lets users send live, one-way video feeds during their phone conversations. Reuters reports the service, which was formally announced during the NXTcomm conference in Chicago, is a bid by the operator to combine mobile, video and the Internet – and no doubt boost interest in the iPhone it offers. “Ultimately, services such as Video Share will be accessible over any of the three primary screens that customers use most frequently: the wireless device, the PC and the television,” the company said in a statement.
The news around the service doesn’t specifically list the use cases and scenarios, but it’s easy to imagine the boon to user-gen when uses can talk to friends and send a video of what they are seeing or an event they are attending. (In fact, this is a road handset makers such as Nokia have tried to go alone
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