Mobile Trends Aim Toward Joining TV, FM Radio, 3G and E-Wallets

In Japan, that is…everything’s converging into that cell phone..there may be cultural reasons for that, but technology is also giving an excuse for that convergence.

“The ideal solution is, perhaps, a cell phone bundled with a satellite receiver. There’s no reason why clicking on a hotlink embedded in a broadcast TV program — beamed from a satellite — can’t initiate a response that goes back to a broadcaster using a Java applet communicating via 3G cellular. If the device is also bundled with an e-wallet (as DoCoMo and KDDI cellies will be by mid-2004), the cellular data channel will also provide a great way to pay for content or other products.”

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