Less than 10 months after launching its mobile broadcast video service in Europe, Virgin has pulled the plug, and will switch off the service early next year. BT Movio, the bandwidth provider, is canceling its contract with frequency owner GCap Media. A number of setbacks plagued the efforts, including that fact that only one handset – the Lobster 700TV – was equipped to receive the service. → Read More
Handset users in Indonesia will get their mobile TV on the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) technology. This same broadcast technology is used for transmitting digital TV to mobile handset users in Japan and Korea, and today Indonesia’s PT Agis announced that it has formed a partnership with IPTV systems integrator Broadband Network Systems (BNS) and Toshiba. Together the partnership will… → Read More
Those crazy mobile manufacturers from SK have done it again. LG has announced that they’ve been developing a handset that will appeal to users’ senses of hearing, sight and touch through T-DMB. Sounds like black magic to me. Watching TV on your handset will be more interactive and you’ll feel like you’re really in the show or movie you’re watching. LG spokesman Song Keun-Young said… → Read More
Another new mobile from LG launched under Cyon in Korea. The LG SB190 boasts DMB and GPS services via Nate Drive along with a 1.3 megapixel camera, mp3 playback and a few other goodies Cetizen didn’t feel like sharing. Feel free to hate me now that I’ve shown you yet another phone that probably won’t make it to the US. LG SB-190 [Cetizen] → Read More
<img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/TV. You read that correctly. We like the LG checker keypad thing it's been doing, and the fact that the phone comes wrapped in your choice of leather coverings, complete with pockets and other wallety things. The phone itself is pretty nice too, using a DMB tuner to pick up that fancy digital TV they have all over Korea. In… → Read More
Samsung unveiled their new SCH-B590 model today, and it looks great–y’know, if you’re into the whole “slimmer is sexier” thing. The phone boasts DMB, a 1.3MP camera and an MP3 player, so that the Koreans can keep playing with all the stuff we know exists but can only dream about one day getting our hands on. This thing claims to be the “thinnest DMB phone on the… → Read More
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