Whats the difference between MediaFLO and Verizon Wireless V CAST or Sprint Corp.s (FON )TV applications?
With V CAST you go through a catalog of things that you’re interested in, choose one, and then it downloads to you. MediaFLO uses the cellular network also, but in off-peak times it’s downloading content to your phone so that when you go to look, it’s already there. In what other ways are chips changing wireless phones? We’re starting to put TV, FM radios, MP3 players, and camcorder functions into the phone. The chips will have the capability of a digital video camcorder. In the next chips, we’re adding computing functions. We’ll have a gigahertz processor in the phone for 3D gaming. So the phone is becoming like a 1998 PC in terms of processing power. How much of a limitation is a phone’s small screen? Well, telephones in Japan already have a “TV out” plug and a cable that goes from your phone to your TV. You do that to move video and photos that you’ve taken on the phone to your TV. Eventually you won’t even need the wires. We’re working on next-generation Wi-Fi because the consumer
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