Sprint Offers TV By Phone [Kansas City Star, 11/14/2003] By David Hayes Format for Printing ...Sprint Corp. and a small California startup teamed up Thursday to offer the world's first live television broadcasts over wireless phones. Called MobiTV, the service provides real-time, on-phone access to 13 television stations... Idetic Inc.'s MobiTV provides streaming audio...which can be heard through the phone's speaker or a headset..."It gives people on-the-go content like they've never been able to see before," Phillip Alvelda, chief executive of Idetic, said...MobiTV is another in a series of products launched by Sprint to show consumers "they can do more on their phone than just talk on it," said Jeff Hallock, assistant vice president of consumer products and services for Sprint...
I was playing with the Verizon I600 today and was very impressed with the streaming video capabilities of this phone. Allot of new Verizon phones are coming out with 1x capable brew, which will allow streaming video applications... It's a whole new world...
My 3650 and my soon to be here that I just won from Cingular 3600 both do streaming video and audio, and both come with real player built in, very cool, much faster I might add than the 2-3 fps that Sprint is offering, I call it "The not so ready for primetime nickelodian tv" technology lol
Yeah, I had the 3650 for about 15 days but never really liked it. I thought that the whole real network thing wasnt all that it could have of been.
At 2 frames per second, I seriously doubt this will create a mass hysteria of people flocking to watch on their phones while driving. I'm much more worried about the in car food eaters, over full teenage cars and make up and shaver in the car people, now THAT should be banned.
Especially since cell phones are something like number 8 on the top ten reasons for car accidents. It's kind of like the illegal drug thing. Cigarettes kill way more people than 'illegal' drugs. And cigarettes kill people who don't even use them.
