Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Television on your Phone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-only-amatter-of-time dept.

zxnos writes "Television on mobile is all geared up to be the next big thing as UK provider Orange, rolls out a mobile handset service, which will offer customers top TV shows and channels. Channels such as Cartoon Network and CNN will be made available for a monthly subscription of £10. This will be UK's first TV-on-the-mobile service, which will allow customers to watch news, sport and entertainment programmes on their phone."

6 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. Cellphone TVs in Japan by FutureFeeder · · Score: 2, Informative

    Japan and Korea are on the bandwagon as well, but it seems like it's just a great way to drain your batteries. Article on mobile TV

  2. Re:broadcast by amembleton · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4563007.stm

    It states that o2 will be providing TV on mobiles by using digital TV signals although these will be special ones designed for mobiles, so they will probably still get to charge you.

  3. In 96x96 pixels? by John+Jorsett · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been researching displays for a project, and the phone-sized ones are 96x96 pixels. I can't imagine trying to watch video on something that low-rez.

  4. Re:Here is what I want in a phone: by Tristandh · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're missing something. Those phones already exist . Many of them aren't in production anymore, but I've noticed for example Nokia keeping such a model in stores (I think it's the 3310 model). It has a good battery life (about a week or so), I never have dropped calls, and there are cheap rubber 'jackets' which protect them from said 5 ft. drops. Hell, I've dropped it many times without the jacket and it always survived. It's even somewhat waterproof. It got soaked in sweat at a concert, rendering the screen all black. Next day phone worked as if nothing happened.
    There will always be a market for totally unnecessary gadgets. Some people think having the latest most expensive handheld with all useless crap on it is somehow a symbol of social status. Hence, someone will produce this junk. That doesn't mean there aren't any decent phones around

  5. Re:They just want money by kunkie · · Score: 1, Informative

    In the UK on a FREE TO AIR Digital Satellite Package CNN is broadcasted unencrypted with no descrambling card needed.

  6. Re:Once again... by cnettel · · Score: 4, Informative
    On my SonyEricsson Z1010 with camera, video calls, media player, J2ME goodness, I still just press "down" to navigate my phone book. If I press a number key after doing so, I scroll to that letter. With the left menu button, I have direct access to my call list, both outwards and inwards. I can easily place another call to the same number.

    Point being? Lots of features don't have to make the obvious and common ones hard to access. Thanks to a larger, color, display, it's also easier to find what I want in the menus, when I need to access those, as I can view all available options at the top level, compared to previous Nokia phones, where I could only see one at a time and scroll between them.

    I can call with my phone, from the phone book, easily. No configuration or menu madness. I can create simply key shortcuts to those of the more complex features I actually use. And then, I have a userfriendly menu for other stuff, when I need that. If cramming in more features has made your phone hard to use, that's because of bad implementation, not because of the features.