Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Coming Soon to Your Pocket: High-Definition TV Phones
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
"Miniature mobile phones, which already double as cameras, Internet devices and music players, are poised to merge with the largest of home appliances, the television. The cellphone industry is working to build phones able to receive high-definition television signals over the air, even though HDTV has yet to make its way into most American living rooms. Texas Instruments, the largest maker of computer chips for mobile phones, plans to announce today that it is developing technology that will allow wireless handsets to receive hundreds of high-definition channels. The phones would not be marketed until 2007."
Hmm, we'll have to see how this really plays out because all the reports about cell phones equipped with TVs that are coming in from Japan and/or Korea indicate that the battery life on the devices are severely lacking and the service costs are wickedly expensive. The New York Times, however, is more optimistic and does a good job in analyzing the entire market scene right now. Would you buy a cell phone TV if you were able to here in the US?
Hmm, we'll have to see how this really plays out because all the reports about cell phones equipped with TVs that are coming in from Japan and/or Korea indicate that the battery life on the devices are severely lacking and the service costs are wickedly expensive. The New York Times, however, is more optimistic and does a good job in analyzing the entire market scene right now. Would you buy a cell phone TV if you were able to here in the US?
