Guest wardy Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 (edited) At CTIA, HTC revealed the Foreseer, a new DVB-H TV phone. The Foreseer phone is quad-band GSM/EDGE Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone with a landscape option QVGA display, microSD card slot, and 1.3 megapixel camera. The phone is TV Compatible and works on the DVB-H network. Edited April 15, 2006 by wardy
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 I guess landscape makes for a good TV viewing ratio. Not sure about the orange colouring though!
Guest Confucious Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 No 3G? Are there any HTC devices apart from the Universal that are 3G?
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 Interesting but I still can not get used to the newer screen orientation on a phone as it makes it more bulky (width wise).
Guest Laser_iCE Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 Eek... I'm not sure what it's like on the newer phones, but on my old smartphone2, the home/back and answer/hang up buttons were the other way around... Which I think was better. I prefer to have my home/back buttons directly above where the action is -- the keypad (for text of course).
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 No 3G? Are there any HTC devices apart from the Universal that are 3G? The Breeze SP and Hermes PPC are both 3G. Neither, of course, are available yet.
Guest wardy Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 I think the phone is aimed more at the US hence EDGE rather than 3G. I'm pretty sure HTC will have a European flavour up their sleeves that we have not seen yet
Guest daedos59 Posted April 8, 2006 Report Posted April 8, 2006 I think the phone is aimed more at the US hence EDGE rather than 3G. I'm pretty sure HTC will have a European flavour up their sleeves that we have not seen yet <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't get your hopes up for a while. The phone is indeed for the US market and it is for a company called Modeo, see story HERE Though the phone is probably similar to the HTC Trinity that Virgin Mobile are going to release here.
Guest Perfectionist Posted April 9, 2006 Report Posted April 9, 2006 Do you have a link to the Virgin HTC Trinity release ? Am I correct in thinking the Trinity is better than the Hermes ??
Guest daedos59 Posted April 9, 2006 Report Posted April 9, 2006 Do you have a link to the Virgin HTC Trinity release ? Am I correct in thinking the Trinity is better than the Hermes ?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The Hermes is technically better as it is the upgrade to the Wizard (Pocket PC), the Forseer just looks like a off-shoot to the Faraday / Tornado or maybe Breeze smartphone family Virgin Mobile HTC Trinity HTC Hermes Preview
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 10, 2006 Report Posted April 10, 2006 Is the US getting DVB-H? I thought all your TV was piped to you via cable ;)
Guest Perfectionist Posted April 10, 2006 Report Posted April 10, 2006 The Hermes is technically better as it is the upgrade to the Wizard (Pocket PC), the Forseer just looks like a off-shoot to the Faraday / Tornado or maybe Breeze smartphone family Virgin Mobile HTC Trinity HTC Hermes Preview <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for the links ...... I thought the Trinity was the one coming out with built-in GPS ...... built-in TV is even cooler !!
Guest djfuego Posted April 11, 2006 Report Posted April 11, 2006 Thanks for the links ...... I thought the Trinity was the one coming out with built-in GPS ...... built-in TV is even cooler !! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Do these tv phones pic up terrestrial/freeview (Digital) tv or the old analog tv?
Guest daedos59 Posted April 11, 2006 Report Posted April 11, 2006 Do these tv phones pic up terrestrial/freeview (Digital) tv or the old analog tv? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmmm ,where to start..mobile TVs are not like normal TVs and are very very unlikely to ever receive normal broadcast. They use a speciall TV format coded for small screen and low bit-rate transmission routes. What you will get instead is either special content broadcast by your carrier or on-demand TV. To be honest I think it is another gimmick like 3G video calling - will you guys really use mobile TV? BTW the PDA/phone with built-in GPS in already out, it is the HTC Galaxy family and only out so far as the Mitac Mio A701 - LINK
Guest v4victory Posted April 11, 2006 Report Posted April 11, 2006 Do these tv phones pic up terrestrial/freeview (Digital) tv or the old analog tv? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ;) we need a small antena
Guest HerpezP Posted April 12, 2006 Report Posted April 12, 2006 BTW the PDA/phone with built-in GPS in already out, it is the HTC Galaxy family and only out so far as the Mitac Mio A701 - LINK <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mitac Mio A701 isn't the HTC Galaxy. The HTC Galaxy is a small PDA with built-in GPS, but no phone. And someone is confusing the HTC Trinity with the HTC Trilogy. Trilogy is a smartphone with TV reception, Trinity is a PDA phone with GPS.
Guest Dr_StrangeTrick Posted April 12, 2006 Report Posted April 12, 2006 Hmmm ,where to start..mobile TVs are not like normal TVs and are very very unlikely to ever receive normal broadcast. They use a speciall TV format coded for small screen and low bit-rate transmission routes. What you will get instead is either special content broadcast by your carrier or on-demand TV. To be honest I think it is another gimmick like 3G video calling - will you guys really use mobile TV?Well I don't know for certain but looking at the original post for the Trinity it says... Unlike today
Guest Denisb Posted May 9, 2006 Report Posted May 9, 2006 Well I don't know for certain but looking at the original post for the Trinity it says... So maybe a small antenna is needed after all ;) The Trilogy uses VHF band 3 or L band DMB to pick up the TV channels and DAB radio (50 in London). I expect it's like FM and might need an headphone cord plugged in to get a signal, in many areas the DMB signal should be higher than freeview DVB signals so it can be used on the move and in some areas without an extra cord as an ariel. 3 TV stations are on air as a test now and looks like Ofcom are going through a consulation to allow BT and Virgin to launch with 5 DMB TV channels in UK. Ofcom consultation The Foreseer is for the DVB/H system which is different to DMB and uses UHF, it is on test in Europe with mostly Nokia phones. O2 are testing in Oxford, the disadvantage is it needs the TV digital switch over in 2010 to clear UHF frequencies for the extra transmitters needed whereas DMB/DAB has 85% coverage of the UK population now.
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