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

From: Benedict Evans <ben_at_ben-evans.com>
Date: 10/07/03
Message-ID: <000501c38cca$d8b13380$0100a8c0@benedict>
Surely that doesn't use any bandwidth at all - it just has a TV tuner
and picks up the standard broadcast signal?

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Juergen Specht
Sent: 07 October 2003 12:57
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Is KDDI 3G (10 milion users) winning over DoCoMo
Foma?


> VideoCalls are not taking-off in Japan or EU and you can handle with a

> quite limited bandwith . With an optimised 144kbs connection you can 
> have high quality Mpeg4 streaming video content. So it is very 
> difficult to find a bandwith intensive application for an hand-held 
> device based on current technology.

Samsung in South Korea was first with live TV on Keitai, that's a
perfect technology to burn bandwidth. And now it comes in Japan too.

Check some impressions of new TV enabled handsets in Japan introduced at
the CEATEC today:

http://nooper.co.jp/showcase/

Juergen
-- 
Juergen Specht, CTO, Nooper.com - Mobile Services Inc., Tokyo, Japan
i-mode & FOMA consulting, development, testing:  http://nooper.co.jp
Check Nooper, your little intelligent email buddy: http://nooper.com


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