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DoCoMo Announces Japan's First Digital Broadcast Cellphone |
masseur
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DoCoMo Announces Japan's First Digital Broadcast Cellphone
DoCoMo has developed their first mobile handset to receive terrestrial digital broadcasting and analog TV in one 3G Foma package. The P901iTV handset, by Panasonic, targets the start of mobile digital broadcasting in April, 2006 and will make its public debut at the upcoming CEATEC Japan 2005 trade show October 4 to 8 at Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba. (WWJ will be on-hand to get photos and video!)
The twist-style handset comes with a 2.5-inch, wide-view main LCD screen plus a sub-display, antenna-embedded earphone for enhanced TV reception, and 2.2-megapixel camera. The handset can only handle around 2.5 hours of continuous digital TV viewing; 1.5 hours of analog -- ruling out Lord of the Rings style 3-hour viewing marathons. DoCoMo's Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet is part of the package as well, enabling the phone to be used as electronic money.
Vodafone and KDDI have had demonstration models of terrestrial digital TV receiver/handsets for some time. Last may their latest versions were up and running at the NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories open house. Vodafone displayed the 801SH Sharp CDMA Qualcomm handset with a hybrid split-screen displaying TV images on the upper half with the bottom reserved for scrolling data feeds. KDDI showed off a similar au prototype handset by Sanyo. Check-out our video report from that event here.
It looks to me like an adapted HTC universal!
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Glenny
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 very nice!! looks good aswell, i just hope that they can improve the battery life....
whats with the electronic money? i dont got an idea what thats about...
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jbm888
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Electronic wallet is using when purchasing items in the store or buy train or movie tickets, the same thing when using your credit card, the only thing you swipe is your cellphone.
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Kryptik
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This is beginning to sound like Cory Doctorow's ebook, Eastern Standard Tribe. Set in the near-future, it speaks of things we're experiencing right now... Read it guys, it's compelling stuff. Check out manybooks.net and gutenberg.org And it's public domain as well, so it's worth a read, imo
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brix25
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What's up with the old skool antenna? Would've thought they had taken care of it.
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Posted: 2005-10-01 15:21
