Mobile Phone TV: 2008 The Turning Point
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Pictures, music, e-mails, and now here we are at last, television in mobile phone. Now, we can watch small video clips and do video recording with mobile phones. Television will be the next big thing in the mobile phone industry according to Ericsson and it is going to happen sooner than expected. I am quoting from the report published in bostonherald.com:
Watching television on cell phones will be a mass phenomenon in 2008, Sweden’s LM Ericsson predicted Thursday, saying the maker of telecommunications gear will work closely with Japan’s Sony Corp. to develop new media solutions for wireless connections.
About one third of the world’s cell-phone users will regularly be watching TV broadcasts on their handsets in two years, which will open up lucrative opportunities for content producers and carriers, said Per Nordlof, Ericsson’s director of Product Strategy, at a joint press briefing with Sony in Stockholm.
Ericsson and Sony have a joint venture for producing mobile phone. In a press conference held in the Sweden capital, Stockholm,
In the conference the company officials exhibited Digital Living Network Alliance, a process that allows mobile phone users to share videos through a home network. The service will be available by 2007. The two companies are also working on creating software to support Digital Living Network Alliance.
In the conference Ericsson official announced that a Belgian Phone company, Proximus, is given the contract to develop the television broadcasting system over mobile phone.
The popularity and demand of mobile phone around the world are sky rocketing. International Data Group (IDG) a research company has recently published a report which says that this year the mobile phone users around the world will reach to 1billion and demand of multifunctional mobile sets are growing high. People are now craving for phones with music, ring tones, video, picture and other functions. Looking at the stats I think that television service in mobile phone would enjoy a huge popularity in future.
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