Anyone reading from Japan (i.e. Andy) may not be impressed by this news, but for those of us from ye olde GSM networks it was certainly impressive. I saw for the first time, television on a mobile phone the other day.
A friend of mine has a new LG phone on the CDMA network of Reliance here in Jaipur, India. I was looking at his phone a couple of days ago and watched a brief news clip from Aaj Tak, an Indian news station. The frame rate was slow and the image tiny, but that just reminded me of the early avi clips on PCs, when the video was in a tiny box in the centre of the monitor and the film was grainy and the frame rate matched a snail's pace. PCs have come a long way since and doubtlessly mobile phones will as well.
On an unrelated note, I'm in love with FeedDemon, although I think it will make me less productive as I can now easily follow any blog I find any way interesting. It's only $30 to buy so I may purchase it soon! No bugs so far except for it crashing once when it hung trying to display a webpage (which displayed ok upon relaunching it). Don't like the 30 uses trial though, especially when it decrements if it quits because of an error and you have to restart it..
Posted by Cokane at February 19, 2004 07:20 AM