HP: mobile TV not ready for prime time

by Marc Perton, posted Mar 6th 2006 at 11:16AM

HP has weighed in on the issue of whether consumers are ready to watch TV on their cellphones, and has answered with a resounding "no." The company has declared that it has no plans to add any 3G features -- especially video -- to its smartphones until at least next year, with one of the company's Asia-Pacific execs declaring that a cellphone screen is "too small for 'Desperate Housewives'… [and] you won't be watching a full football or cricket match." Of course, given that HP doesn't manufacture its own smartphones, what the company thinks may have less impact than what features companies like HTC decide to include on their smartphones. And, whether HP likes it or not, Windows Mobile smartphones are already video-capable, even if downloading via non-3G networks makes getting those vids a chore.

Filed under: Multimedia, HTC, Windows Mobile, HP

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4x4van @ Mar 6th 2006 12:12PM

Exactly, cell phone screens are too small to watch video, so can we PLEASE have a real PDA phone with the screens they have been making for the past 5 years? I love that they now give you the option to do landscape on the screens and then they go and make the landscape size of the screen the same size as the normal width screen? What was that all about? I guess they realized they got too far ahead of themselves and decided they better back track and make the screens a little more useless untill they got more money from the consumer.I guess I will just have to keep hoping for a U.S. Release of the Sharp w-zero3!

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Anthony @ Mar 6th 2006 4:59PM

Wether HP likes it or not, I laready watch TV on my hw6515. I use SmartVideo. Its a program that works practivly with any Pocket PC's out there. Being that EDGE is the fastest that there is available, the video can some times cut out. But all in all, im pretty happy with the service.

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John @ Mar 7th 2006 12:47AM

I've also already watched streaming internet video over EV-DO on my pocketpc phone (Not HP). Look at the success of tv downloads formatted for a small screen at itunes.

I would agree that TV is not a prime motivating factor for IT departments around the world when choosing a mobile phone/PDA for employees.

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