Motorola Unveils Mobile Live TV Device
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The cellphone maker introduced a mobile media player that shows live television, on-demand video clips and programming saved on digital video recorders.
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A new Motorola handheld is designed for retail and health care workers who need voice capability and must look up information quickly with bar code scanning.
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Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has begun developing a chip that could bring television shows to mobile phone screens in three years.
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Cell phone manufacturers are teaming up to bring mobile television to your handset.
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest mobile phone maker, on Sunday unveiled two new  phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service Soundbuzz  as it looks to stem recent market share losses.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- Motorola Inc. started selling the next generation model of its popular, ultra-slim Razr cell phone in South Korea Friday, ahead of a global launch scheduled for July.
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Are there more changes ahead for Motorola?
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Texas Instruments Inc. has begun developing a chip that could bring television shows to mobile phone screens in three years.
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Motorola Inc , which has recently lost cell phone market share, is introducing a mobile device for playing live television to expand its reach in portable consumer electronics.
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Motorola Inc. unveiled its highly anticipated &quot;Q&quot; cell phone Monday, joining other manufacturers in aiming for businesspeople who want their e-mail to go.
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Device allows viewers to operate on/off switch, change channels or volume by simple hand gestures.
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(InfoWorld) - Watching TV on a mobile phone could get more interesting next year with new technologies that promise to bring TiVo-like recording functionality to portable devices. Texas Instruments is demonstrating PVR (personal video recording) capabilities for mobiles at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam this week. It is using its own Hollywood digital TV chip and OMAP 2 multimedia processor, along with software from partners PacketVideo and Software Systems (S3). The technology allows people to record a TV program on their mobile phone and then watch it later, on the train on the way to work, for example. The TI package also provides "picture-in-picture" capabilities, allowing a person to watch a prerecorded program and also track a live sports event in a smaller, on-screen window. The PVR technology should find its way into mobile phones in 2007, TI said. It didn't name any handset makers but most of the big vendors, including Samsung ElectronicsÂ and Nokia, are marketing phones for TV viewing. The companies hope the PVR capabilities will draw more people to mobile TV, which the telecommunications industry has been marketing heavily as a way to generate more revenue from consumers and make use of the high-speed 3G wireless networks that operators have been building. Predictions vary for how quickly mobile TV will take off. In-Stat predicts there will be 3.4 million mobile TV subscribers by the end of the year, jumping to 102 million by 2010. Strategy Analytics Inc., another researcher, said the hype around mobile TV remains out of proportion to the evidence of consumer interest. Including PVR capabilities improves the value proposition of mobile TV, but it's unclear whether it will make more consumers willing to pay for it, said Strategy Analytics analyst Nitesh Patel. Offering a picture within a picture on a small portable handset screen is "a bit ambitious," he noted. "It will be interesting to see how this products ties into how much memory gets bundled into handset," he said. "I'm presuming that a lot of memory will be required to store a 1.5 hour movie." If the video is recorded using the H.264 standard, a gigabyte of memory would be enough to store about three hours of 30-frames-per-second video for display on a QVGA 320-by-240-resolution screen, a TI spokeswoman said. Phone makers would decide whether to use flash memory or a hard disk, and how much memory to offer. The demonstration at IBC used TI's DTV1000 Hollywood processor, which is based on the DVB-H mobile TV standard and combines a tuner, demodulator, decoder and some memory on one chip. It also uses its OMAP2430 processor, which can decode two TV channels simultaneously, providing the picture-in-picture capability. The device used was a hybrid phone/PDA built for TI by PacketVideo for the purpose of the demonstration. The OMAP chip has video-out capabilities, which means people on the road could watch their prerecorded TV content on a TV in a hotel room, for example, so long as the phone maker provides the right outputs. Other developments are under way to make mobile TV more palatable for consumers. Samsung said this week it is developing a new display driver that adjusts the brightness of a display according to ambient lighting conditions. Due for mass production at the end of this year, it It should make displays easier to view in broad daylight, Samsung said.
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BenQ has unveiled the user interface for an upcoming Linux-based 'mobile Internet device.'
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Fashion-conscious design can only get you so far Review Motorola has refreshed the PEBL concept with the MOTO U9, another stylish clamshell with a glossy front and external music player touch controls. But is this tune-playing mobile the one to get Motorola back on track with the fashion phone crowd?â¦
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NEW YORK - Texas Instruments is to bring live digital television broadcasts to mobile phones for the first time in a development that it claims could revolutionise the industry.
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The cell phone maker introduced a mobile media player that shows live television, on-demand video clips and programming saved on digital video recorders.