April 29, 2005
Survey: TV for Mobile Phones Set to Reach Masses
About 125 million consumers will be watching television on their mobile phone in five years from now, a new survey found on Thursday, reports Reuters.
"Handset makers will sell 130,000 TV phones this year, rising to 83.5 million by 2010, research group Informa said.
Mobile TV signals will be handled by special chips on a mobile phone that sit alongside the chips that process the mobile phone's calls, music and streaming video clips.
The difference between TV and streaming video services will be that the TV signals are broadcast to all users at the same time, while streaming video will be delivered on demand by mobile operators."
Nokia has said it will introduce a mobile TV phone in the first half of 2006 and expects volume sales as early as in the second half of 2006. Samsung Electronics from Korea has also showed its first TV phones."
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