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NEC and Vodafone launch mobile phone built-in analog TV tuner
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:19:07 -0400
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:54:31 +0900 From: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp>Source: Gadget Watch No. 119 (from J@pan Inc magazine) <http://www.japaninc.com/newsletters/index.html?list=gw>Name: NEC V601N (J-N51) Category: Mobile phones Price: TBA Release date in Japan: early December The Gist: Now, regular GW readers will know that I generally steer well clear of reporting on developments in the mobile phone sector. The reason for this is twofold: Firstly, I don't use all the fancy functions on mobile phones and only want one in order to speak to people a long way away and, secondly, because some time ago I made a small error reporting a function on a mobile and half the industry and about a gadzillion mobile phone addicts emailed me telling me what an idiot I was. Which I already knew. But there is an exception to every rule, and the V601N from NEC (sold as the J-N51 by Vodafone) is what's made me do it. This is the first mobile phone in the country to house an integral terrestrial analog TV tuner. It may even be (visibly flinches, anticipating ensuing corrective email onslaught) the first in the world to do so. That's amazing -- at only 24mm thick in its closed, clamshell form (opened up it's completely invisible), you wouldn't think it possible to squeeze that kind of technology into it. The phone has a 2.2-inch TFT screen displaying 216x160 dots, you can capture stills from the TV in MPEG-4 and you can even use the thing as a remote control for your television, if you feel like it. Mad. But I'm saying nothing more. More info: http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0310/1402.html (in Japanese) ----larger picture <http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/parts/image_for_link/55509-16014-1-1.html>48x95x24mm 119gEnglish press release <http://www.vodafone.jp/english/release/2003/031014e.pdf>Adam --
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