Most modern mobile phones facilitate the transmission and display of video clips.
Since the development of the multimedia messaging service (MMS) system in 2000, sending audio, picture and video content via wireless mobile phones has grown increasingly popular. In addition, most modern cell phones allow the transmission of multimedia content, via email or a Bluetooth wireless connection. Second nature for many, the process of sending a video via cell phone will only initially baffle a new or inexperienced cellular customer.
Instructions
1. Ensure that your cell phone is capable of capturing video, via a built-in digital camera, and sending it, via MMS, email or Bluetooth connection. If you intend to downloaded the video coverage or receive it yourself, via MMS, email or Bluetooth, your mobile phone obviously only requires the ability to receive/download and send video. You can find out your particular phone's video capabilities by contacting your service provider, referencing your phone manual or simply looking through your phone's application list for those relating to video capture or playback.
2. Check to see if you have an active messaging or data plan with your cellular service provider that includes video messaging. You can find out by contacting your service provider or checking your account online (as long online account services are available and you have signed up for them). Often, if your phone is capable, you can still send video messages without a message or data plan, but you will be charged a high per-use fee that may even grow with the size of the video file being sent.
3. Capture the video footage, using your cell phone's built-in digital camera application; download it, via a Web application; or simply receive it in your message inbox. Downloading video and receiving video messages are both subject to the terms of a data/message plan or a per-use fee structure.
4. On your mobile phone, open the application that manages video files. This may be the same as the camera application, or a separate application that manages video/photo viewing operations only.
5. Navigate to the clip of the video coverage you wish to send, or highlight its representative thumbnail image.
6. Press the phone's "Options" or "Menu" button. This will open up a set of options concerning the management of the selected video file.
7. Select the option that indicates sending or sharing the video. The phrasing of the correct option varies by phone model: "Share," "Send," "Add to Message," "Send in Message," "Send As" and "Send Via" are just a few examples. Most modern cell phones will then give you the option to choose the method of sending the video file (MMS, email or Bluetooth).
8. Select the method in which you wish to send the message and confirm the selection. If you choose MMS transmission, you will be taken to your phone's messaging application and allowed to attach an accompanying text message and designate the intended recipient(s) before confirming the send. Selecting email transmission will take you to your phone's email application, allowing you to enter accompanying text and the recipient's email address. For Bluetooth transmission, you must have an active Bluetooth connection with another nearby phone, but the video file is downloaded directly into the other phone's video directory, not as part of a message.
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