(keitai-l) Re: Is KDDI 3G (10 milion users) winning over DoCoMo Foma?

From: Tom Motoyoshi Kalland <tmk_at_infeline.org>
Date: 10/08/03
Message-ID: <3F837248.4090707@infeline.org>
Juergen Specht wrote:
>>Surely that doesn't use any bandwidth at all - it just has a TV tuner
>>and picks up the standard broadcast signal?
> 
> This prototype:
> 
> http://nooper.co.jp/showcase/gallery.php?s=43&p=21&l=en
> 
> has a second antenna, so you could be right. But I guess that
> the reception is extremely bad in a train or in tunnels,
> so I doubt they rely only on a standard broadcast.

that phone was shown on the news last night. they said it has a built in 
digital tv (with tuner - hence the antenna - etc). i.e. for those 
digital tv broadcasts that are expected to take off soon.

the samsung mentioned earlier is just normal old fashioned analogue tv 
as far as i know.

.tmk
Received on Wed Oct 8 05:10:29 2003