Mobile phones that support video content are widely spread to users all over to world and are expected to have a continuous growth in the following years. Being considered by most the leading technology in this domain, mobile television has what it takes to lead the mobile video industry and help it become the most dynamic sector of mobile entertainment.
A recent research on the mobile phone market revealed that more smartphones capable of video content will be sold than TVs this year. This prediction might come as a shock for most of us because we probably never thought that mobile video content will have so much success in short time. On top of this, more content is announced to be made available this year, including box office movies, videoclips of popular artists and a lot of YouTube-like clips. Also, the big events scheduled to take place this year, like the Beijing Olympic Games, are expected to make a lot of people all over the world turn to mobile television as they don't want to miss anything from the events they're interested in. People perceive mobile television as the most interesting feature available now on mobile phones and are looking forward towards the future developments and expansions of this domain.
Phone producers have realized that this is the direction to follow with the upcoming products and most of the future models are announced to be at least video capable, if not ready for mobile television. This new trend in the mobile industry will probably increase the demand of video phones and an increase in sales will be recorded. Video phones will be accessible to most people around the world at decent prices and a new market will develop around this new feature bringing more profit to the mobile industry.