| In the H.246's defence, the format has been working | | | | would drain the phone of its battery life. It will also rob |
| fine so far with the only drawback being that | | | | the phone of its performance, creating tremendous |
| companies who use it need to pay patenting royalty | | | | strain on the phone. |
| fees to the companies that developed the standard. | | | | The good news is that the phones that are yet to be |
| Keeping this in mind and as a solution to this, Google | | | | launched in the market will now have WebM support. |
| recently announced the WebM free version at its I/O | | | | A first among such phones would be from Broadcom |
| conference. To individuals and companies alike it is a | | | | as they have already altered their mobile chips to |
| sigh of relief as the "no fee" tag is a welcome change. | | | | support the WebM format. All future processors will |
| However, this spells bad news for all the Smartphone | | | | probably support this format as it seems to be |
| users as most of the past and current Smartphones | | | | catching on pretty well. This however will not help |
| will not be able to support this format. As opposed to | | | | current users of Smartphones. |
| desktops and laptops, Smartphones will not be able to | | | | Google already has plans of adding support for WebM |
| support this format. With desktops and laptops, the | | | | in the next version of the Android OS that is fondly |
| only prerequisite to use WebM will be additional | | | | named Gingerbread. This is sure to make consumers |
| software installed on the system. Smartphones | | | | happy. Plans to embed WebM into Youtube services |
| however will have to wait for an up-gradation of the | | | | are also in the pipeline. With Google using the WebM |
| software to actually be able to play videos in this | | | | on such a huge platform, other sites are also bound to |
| format. Unfortunately for them, the current software is | | | | follow suit. WebM is probably going to be one of the |
| designed to adapt to the H.246. Consumers who | | | | most popular formats in the market and being a free |
| would want to still go ahead with using the WebM | | | | version it will gain popularity very soon. Although it |
| format without a software acceleration will be in for a | | | | seems to be a setback for the current Smartphone |
| rude shock because running the application as such | | | | users WebM is still a noteworthy video codec. |