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.
posted Mar 6th 2006 11:16AM
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!
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.
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.