Hey,
Thanks for the information to everyone who replied:)
David - you wouldn't happen to recall the URL of that WAP
site that was teaching English, would you?
At 10:29 PM 2/4/2002 +0900, you wrote:
>Rachel -
>
>(from the coming-real-soon-really dept.)
>
>FOMA:
>
>on the Nec phones: supports i-motion which is an a/v format for
>downloadable clips. You can just use the audio component. Users can d/l,
>store, make playlists etc. These clips are addressable from cHTML pages
>but not java.
>on the Pana phones: <edit long story> there's streaming video...
>
>503:
>
>I think the doco fujitsu and the NEC 503 models support sampled audio, but
>this is non standard. I think it's cos they have the Yamaha MA-2 chip
>where the other mfr's are still on MA1. Not sure tho.
>
>J-Phone:
>
>Two recent J-Phone models come with built in ringtones that incorporate
>singing samples (SH-07 'come on' from the beatles and "La Bamba" on the
>Toshiba shamail phone). Tho J-Phone specs are all across the board, so its
>hard to extrapolate which other phones will also support this. These were
>also ringtones that shipped with the phone, I haven't come across any
>downloadables that use samples yet, but that might just be due to market
>size noone has bothered.
>
>In the US - CDMA:
>
>is quite popular (sprint, vrzn), as used over here by KDDI. The CDMA One
>phones have QCELP audio support (which is basically Qualcomm's voice
>codec). I saw a wap site that was teaching english, where you could click
>on links and hear the spoken samples, which would download and play
>neatly. I think QCELP is fixed around the 14k old cdma standard, so the
>clips come down much faster than realtime on KDDI's clippy current network.
>
>This wasn't in the first rev of Brew, but is now exposed and will be in
>the panasonic brew phone when it ships here, and is in the LG phone for
>KTF/korea. VRZN is in the US presumably will have latest Brew
>impelementation since they're late.
>
>Sprint is focusing on java rather than Brew but based on CDMA, but doubt
>they will extend MIDP to allow sampled audio first round.
>
>Voice instruments: anyone remember Q-BERT??
>
>Other keywords: Faith, SMAF.
>
>(Footnote: Faith have a 45% profit margin on their tech licensing business!)
>
>For US you might also want to look at Beatnik and Sseyo, java 'vector
>audio' extensions that incorporate samples.
>
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Received on Mon Feb 4 17:13:00 2002