While in Baltimore for the NCAA lacrosse championships, I went down to the hotel breakfast and wanted to get the day’s game schedule.

I had heard about CNN Mobile (cnnmobile.com) and gave it a try on my Palm Treo. Long story short, no schedule but found some mobile video. Well, HAD to try it.

I selected the mobile video for download, a .5 mb file that downloaded on about 30 seconds. Not too bad.

Not too bad until I opened it to play. The image was postage stamp size - literally. About 1/4 of the available screen. The video was watchable until the action got busy. Then the fps droped to about 3fps.
Total length was 1:30

This all would be fine if there was audio but… No Sound.

CNN would be better off using stills with audio. News footage without commentary is, well, useless.

Nice try CNN. This will eventually be a great thing but right now, wait.

Perry via Treo