OK…if you’re one of those people who think that mobile TV won’t work because the screen is too small and the quality is too bad, get over to Nvidia’s booth (if you’re at CTIA) and check out their demo. I just got attracted to their dispaly stand at Mobile Focus from across the corridor because I could see the screen perfectly. Admittedly, it was the most advanced graphics accelerator they had, but combine that with DVB-H (or MediaFLO, although they weren’t using that) and you have a very impressive service. At the moment it’s the top-end phones…but it will find it’s way into the medium market in a year or so, and then it will become standard in almost all phones.
Incidentally, the Nvidia guy said they’d shipped one million of their chips to Italy, for the DVB-H phones — which isn’t the same as saying there’s that many in use, of course. There was talk about them being lucky to get 350,000 customers by the end of the year.
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