Television on your Phone

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."

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Re:broadcast

[amembleton]

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.

Re:Once again...

[cnettel]

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.