It's going to depend upon how you define "good enough camera" and "broadcast". A significant percentage of those in broadcasting were aghast when DV footage was allowed on air, and there are still those who refuse to accept HDV as "true" HD. A Nokia handheld is going to be a tough sell in the traditional broadcast or video production markets.

On the other hand, there are others who specifically go for the "YouTube look" when creating web video, and a pocketable, all-in-one device such as that you're envisioning would play well for run-and-gun there. Bill it as a Flip MinoHD with Eye-Fi-like upload and built-in, live streaming.

As a side note, this reminds me the demo GY-DV300U we had on loan from JVC some six or seven years ago. It was too little for too much, but time favorably shifts the price point of technology, and I'd say the idea is coming around again.

I just have no idea of the A/V encoding power of the 35xx chipset, nor just how much bandwidth would be required to stream this, but I think a minimum requirement for what I'm talking about would be 640x480, 25 fps, no obvious compression artifacts. I'm sure the "traditional broadcast or video production markets" would be aghast at those specs, but I really believe those numbers are sufficient for live reporter-on-the-spot type broadcasts.

There are other factors, of course. For example, image stabilization has been a problem on recent Nokia devices. A nice clear video stream is nothing if it looks like the camera is being held by a palsied hamster.

From TPS65950 and OMAP3530 Hardware Connectivity User's Guide ( http://focus.ti.com.cn/cn/lit/ug/swcu056a/swcu056a.pdf )

- Image/video/audio (IVA) 2+ accelerator, enabling multistandard (MPEG-4, WMV9, RealVideo®, H263, H264) encoding/decoding at D1 (720 x 480 pixels) 30 frames per second (fps)

So, at least in theory, this should be possible IF the rest of the system can sustain the datarate through the whole camera-gstreamer-encoder-streamserver chain.

Bah, I can't get flumotion to start on either my Ubuntu desktop machine, or in my tablet's Debian chroot. I'm not sure what's wrong in each case, but it seems that it might have something to do with the SSL certificate I create during the install...

And a wise man you are: New iPhone Good Enough For The Evening News.