New Genre of Mobile Phone

Today mobile phone is essential to people, almost everybody has a mobile phone. The users of mobile phone are broad as it is welcome by all class of people. In the article entitled “Rise of the mobile video blog”, Simmons (2007) had discuss about the advance of mobile phone which allowed the users to capture, view and post video to web by using mobile phone.

Today, mobile phone is no longer used as a tool of voice communication; the newest mobile phone contains other functions which provide entertainment such as cameras, games consoles, internet browsers and songs (GlobeCaller UK, 2008).

The new function of mobile phone has initiated new genre of texts such as mobisode and moblog. Moblog is also known as mobile blog which is a blog that sustained by using mobile phone or PDA(personal digital assistant), moblog often renew by uploading the files from camera phone to a blog (Whatis.com,2008). Moblogging has begun in Japan and Korea as the 3G wireless services have been arises for years (Whatis.com, 2008).

As indicated by Maxwell (2006), mobisode is a short episode of a television program which is specific generated for the mobile phone user to watch the episode through the screen of mobile phone. Generally, the length of the mobisode is only last for one till three minutes (Maxwell, 2006). Nowadays people tend to use mobile phone to watch video and episodes. Based on the MarketTools study (2009), the figures of people who watched television and video content on their mobile phone has remained at 35 per cent from 2008 to 2009 (Zoomerang Blog, 2009). Moreover, according to the Zoomerang Blog website (2009), 78 per cent of American users expect that mobile device TV and video usage will rise by 2010.

(Picture from Portmanteau Words, 2007)

The advancement of technology has slowly changed the way of mobile phone usage and produced new genre of texts such as mobisode and moblog. In unison, it also influenced the way the users live.


References:

GlobeCaller UK 2008, How mobile phone has changed the live we live, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.globecaller.co.uk/how-mobiles-have-changed-our-lives.html

Maxwell, K 2006, Word of Week Archive: mobisode, Macmillan English Dictionary, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/wordoftheweek/archive/060828-mobisode.htm

Simmons, D 2008, Rise of the mobile video blog, BBC News, viewed 12 June 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7392594.stm

WhatIs.com 2008, What is moblog?, TechTarget, viewed 12 June 2009, viewed 12 June 2009, http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1180174,00.html

Zoomerang Blog 2009, Mobile Device TV And Video Usage Remains Steady, Expected to Rise by 2010, viewed 12 June 2009, http://zoomerang.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/mobile-device-tv-and-video-usage-remains-steady-expected-to-rise-by-2010