Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Cell Phone TVs Catching On
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 01:00 PM
"With mobiles starting to dominate our daily lives, there is growing interest in the idea of TV on the phone. Mobile TV has been tried before, never with much success. There is the problem of getting decent reception while you are on the move, let alone the issue of battery life and watching programmes on a tiny screen."
I had first heard about cellphone TVs when Samsung released the first such model about three years ago. This article talks about the fact that more and more people are interested in this technology; however, poor battery performance in such devices are proving to be the biggest hurdle. One of the ways to tackle this problem is called a method called time-slicing, which means that the receiver is not on all the time. The other hurdle is the prohibitive cost of the TV service for cell phones with can cost over $1 per minute of watched content. Hmm, it would still be interesting to try it out. Does anyone own a cell phone TV yet?
I had first heard about cellphone TVs when Samsung released the first such model about three years ago. This article talks about the fact that more and more people are interested in this technology; however, poor battery performance in such devices are proving to be the biggest hurdle. One of the ways to tackle this problem is called a method called time-slicing, which means that the receiver is not on all the time. The other hurdle is the prohibitive cost of the TV service for cell phones with can cost over $1 per minute of watched content. Hmm, it would still be interesting to try it out. Does anyone own a cell phone TV yet?
