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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."

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  1. 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.