Nokia Sees HD Video On Your Cell Phone

Still getting used to watching video on your cell phone? Some folks in the wireless industry hope you’ll learn to not only love it, but be hungry for HD in a couple of years.

In an interview with Reuters, Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer discussed the future of HD-video on cell phones, and thinks that, not only will we be able to watch high-def content, but we’ll be recording it, too. “It’s coming,� Tero Ojanpera is quoted as saying. “Technically, we are a couple of years away.�

Nokia introduced its N95 model in the U.S. earlier this year, a handset capable of recording TV-quality video. And it sounds like the next step, to HD-quality, is right around the corner.

Analysts from the research firm Gartner concur with Ojanpera’s assessment; their estimate projects HD capable phones as making up 8%-10% of the market as soon as 2010. Not coincidentally, Broadcom announced today that it has begun shipping new chipsets which support HD video on handheld devices – including cell phones.