this is an interesting point. I also remember seeing these TVs in the early
1980s but never made the link with FOMA till now. I guess FOMA has to offer
a lot more content than is available on a portable TV (I assume color
portables are quite possible now) to be successful.
jeff funk
>When pocket TVs came out in the early 1980's (I still have my monochrome
>Casio pocket TV) I really thought that people would spend time watching
>them at work (at lunch, even in the toilets!) or on the bus and they would
>become some sort of modern-day social problem. As it turned out, besides
>the TV content being quite awful during work hours, people just didn't care,
>and still don't.
>
Received on Wed Mar 20 07:37:17 2002