The Guardian reports that Mobile phone network 3 is in talks with Sky and ITN to feed video clips from its phone users.
Changes in mobile phone technology, which have put relatively high-resolution cameras into the hands of millions of people, have created some of the most powerful news images of the past two years. From footage of the shocking impact of the Asian tsunami to shots of passengers stumbling along dimly lit tracks after last year’s terror attacks on the London Underground, and the progress of a confused whale up the Thames, mobile-phone pictures have relayed events before the arrival of professional camera crews and reporters.
Its current funniest-home-video-style service SeeMe TV reportedly gets a million downloads per month and it now wants to move into the more serious realm of the citizen journalist. Or maybe it’s just the realm of the freaked-out disaster victim with a camera phone.
