All modern smartphones tend to have high-definition video recording capabilities, most of the "dumbphones" and point-and-shoot cameras also sport some sort of video recording these days. The possibility to capture quality video (and to take good photos) was one of the key requirements for me when I was switching from an iPhone 3G to something new.
Nokia's Lumia 800 hasn't let me down in the tasks I have bought it for. Sure the autofocus is a bit too eager when shooting video and there are some bugs when taking photos, but otherwise I'm loving the possibility to capture everyday moments, even if they come across unexpectedly. Let it be a brother's dog going mad about digging snow or capturing the full beauty of downtown Dubai area, it's there, stored on your mind and camera's memory.
Once you've captured stuff, YouTube makes it darn easy to share. I only had a few, many years old videos on my YouTube channel before getting the Lumia, but nowadays I upload videos there every now and then. It's thanks to the user-friendly interface plus the very easy but extremely useful edit tools, which I just recently discovered. My videos might not be of spectacular quality, but things like correcting color balance conveniently on YouTube is much appreciated.
Doing little editing and fixing on your videos is easy on YouTube.
Even if you wouldn't consider yourself to be the Steven Spielberg of mobile filming, you should still join YouTube. You can be there without trying to become an internet phenomena with millions of viewers, but just to share videos privately with your family for example. It's a really nice service. Thanks Google for keeping up YouTube!
You can check out some of my random videos on my YouTube channel.
