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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