The trick is to make them cheaper. The Nokia N77 is the second phone from Nokia to come with an internal DVB-H antenna. This module allows you to receive a mobile television broadcast. So there really seems to be a market for mobile television as mid range phones such as these boast mobile television in the stead of a WiFi signal.
I guess phone users would find a better use for passive entertainment while on the commute. It does make sense. Between watching television on the train vs. surfing the net, I’d do the former. This is the couch potato …read more

Back in 2001, the “in thing” was having a mobile phone with Bluetooth and a personal digital assistant. The latter allowed you to keep schedule, listen to music and view photos while your phone simply allowed you to send away text messages. You could sync both devices wirelessly, and this was the beginning of how the industry juggled OTA sync tools. My personal favorite config was the Nokia 6310i with the Palm m515 and a Bluetooth SDIO card.
Now, Apple had just announced the iPod touch, a niche market product that heavily capitalizes on the iPhone sans the calling and camera …read more

I’m in Singapore! Although the Nokia Go Play event ended several hours ago (we took a post event trip to Equinox, a bar located at the highest peak of Singapore), there are a lot more things happening tomorrow. In the meantime let me give an overview of what took place today as Nokia launched several new products and services.

Pantech has unveiled their latest multimedia phone and from the looks alone, this is a sure winner in design. Toting identical buttons and speakers on both ends, the U410 makes for a symmetric piece of tech that most multimedia fans will come to love.
With a bumped up 3MP camera, Pantech has decided to include a PictBridge add on so that you can print directly from the device. Four channel speakers (front stereo and back stereo) are included with the unit for digital playback.
A DMB receiver was also included in the device making the U410 a thick brick reminiscent of the …read more

Though some other countries already offer digital TV via the Internet, Planet Japan has come up with a way to broadcast digital media via radio airwaves, and not through satelittes or the Internet.
But the new service in Japan, which is free, will potentially reach the broadest market yet through the country’s terrestrial digital broadcast system, which relays images through the air via TV towers, not satellites.
It also uses broadcasting air waves, rather than an Internet connection, to relay streaming video.
[source at Yahoo! News]