AT&T has just announced their intentions to launch a whole slew of new features on November 8th. The first is an all new voicemail-to-text service which will, of course, change your voicemails into text messages making it easier for you to catch that number or name.

Second of all AT&T is planning to launch their Nation with Canada plans which will allow you customers to make calls between Canada and the US with no long distance charges.

And last but not least they will be launching 3 new channels for their Mobile TV service which we have little to no details about. Luckily, they will be dropping the base cost of the service from $15 to $9.99 and the unlimited service from $30 to $24.99.

via engadget

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Yesterday, a decision was made by the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) that could change the mobile world as we know it. This ratification of the A/153 ATSC Mobile DTV Standard “defines the technical specifications necessary for broadcasters to provide new services to mobile and handheld devices using their digital television transmissions”.

Does this mean that every mobile could be capable of playing digital TV? Maybe. Truth be told, I do most of my television watching on Hulu or other Internet TV places. Still, the idea of being anywhere with a mobile phone and channel surfing appeals to me, I guess.

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If you’ve been dying to watch actual TV on your iPhone (or iPod touch), and happen to live in Japan, then you should check out I-O Data’s recently announced SEG Clip 1 seg iPhone mobile TV tuner.

To use this device all you do is plug it into a computer and then download a TVPlayer application from the App Store and you’re good to go.  Of course, you can’t watch live TV using this device as you have to save shows on your computer.

Anyways, you can pick up I-O Data’s SEG Clip 1seg mobile TV tuner for ¥6,615 or about $68 USD.

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Try to be unique this coming Father’s day by giving your father something different. In fact, he may even be dumbfounded if you end up handing him a Samsung Eternity this June 21. The cost? Don’t worry about it. Thanks to this special promotion by AT&T, you can get dad a Samsung Eternity for only $79.99.

Now how is that for a cool Father’s Day gift? Dad will not know what hit him with this great QWERTY touch screen gizmo. And when you buy one from AT&T, you get some great apps to go with it like AT&T Mobile TV, AT&T Navigator and AT&T FamilyMap.

The Samsung Eternity, with a vibrant 3.2-inch touch screen, boasts a full-touch QWERTY keypad providing customers access to messaging, AT&T Mobile Music with Napster Mobile and the 3.0 megapixel camera. The Eternity’s browser provides customers with the ability to navigate pages with the touch of a finger while surfing the Internet on the nation’s fastest 3G network.

The Samsung Eternity is available through AT&T retail locations or online at http://www.wireless.att.com for $79.99 with a two-year service agreement. (Pay $129.99 and after mail-in rebate receive $50 AT&T Promotion Card. Two-year agreement and minimum $20 data or messaging plan required.)

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Mobile operators and content owners are the prime target of this new technology, developing and deploying Live and On Demand TV video services for the iPhone. The use of video via mobile devices has become evidently growing and thanks to the new iPhone OS 3.0, Envivio plans to use this to deliver the growing demand requirements to people who lean on mobile TV today.

iLiveTV delivers everything mobile operators and content owners need to deliver TV to iPhone users. iLiveTV includes the Envivio 4Caster C4 world-class video encoding platform, content delivery server software.

So if you have been chained to YouTube and other video streaming services, expect a new wave of sites and services to come out once this technology is taken into their wing and optimized to deliver the visual privileges that has invaded the mobile features we see today. The ultimate winner is the mobile users since now, they are on the brink of having a wider selection of video sources once companies settle down with the iLiveTV.

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People who want to use their Blackberry Smartphones to watch full episodes of popular TV programs from leading networks can be able to do so with the launch of PrimeTime2Go premium mobile TV service.

The monthly subscription fee-based service will be available in early May via the BlackBerry App World storefront, and will enable consumers to download and watch full-length episodes of their favorite shows on-demand including NBC’s “The Office,” CBS’s “CSI,” MTV’s “The Hills,” a part of MTV Networks, and The CW’s “90210” anytime, anywhere.

QuickPlay will offer PrimeTime2Go in the US on the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones, which are currently available to AT&T and T-Mobile customers. The service will allow customers to easily browse extensive catalogs of content and download selected programs to their smartphone in the background, thereby allowing them to use other services while shows are loading.

Following the download, subscribers will be able to watch their selected program on their schedule until the pre-determined viewing period expires. All selected content will be delivered over Wi-Fi which provides cost savings, since it will not impact the user’s data usage.

For added convenience, subscribers will have the ability to watch the TV shows offline. PrimeTime2Go will also provide capabilities that allow consumers to pause a program, exit the application and then resume viewing from where they left off upon re-entering the service.

PrimeTime2Go will be available in early May, as a $7.99 monthly subscription. To access the service, subscribers will need to visit BlackBerry App World storefront on their compatible smartphones, browse to the “Music and Video” category, select PrimeTime2Go, and then follow the instructions to download and install the application.

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One thing about being able to watch TV on your mobile phones is the scope of entertainment in the form of channels you can get. Apparently, MobiTV has been around and has demonstrated ability to stimulate widespread adoption across existing carrier networks. And to that note, they have been awarded the Best Mobile TV service provider at the Global Mobile Awards held at Barcelona.

MobiTV already serves a compelling mobile TV experience featuring popular content and primetime channels to over 6 million subscribers on more than 300 handset models.

“At MobiTV we know mainstream adoption of mobile television is dependent on compelling user experiences and content that is relevant to the consumer,” said Charlie Nooney, CEO MobiTV. “By providing features like immediate session start, fast channel change and a simple user interface, MobiTV is giving users the experience they expect. The GSMA have recognised that in the award we received.”

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Don’t be surprised if you are offered another type of service in the form of video services for your mobile phones by your provider soon. And if so, you can be sure that this was made possible with this new on-device video entertainment solution announced by Mobixell Videon.

Mobixell’s Videon(TM), which is commercially installed at various mobile operators around the world, enables the delivery of new video services from Video on Demand and live channels to internet video, over a vast variety and diversity of mobile devices, domains and networks, simply and at optimum quality.

The advantages of Videon(TM) version 3.0 are the integration of a mobile internet gateway, an acquisition system, ad injector, streaming server and bit rate adaptation technology - all in one product.

For end users, the solution will deliver a more complete, personalised experience all delivered at optimum quality, which will enable the mobile TV experience to evolve from ‘passive zapping’ to ‘active browsing’.

The Mobixell Videon platform is built to support the business model of ad-funded TV services by providing real-time targeted advertising injection: Videon is already integrated and deployed in commercial service with Mobixell’s Ad-It(TM) ad server.

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Here is something that Sony Ericsson phone and camera lovers are bound to want. The new Sony Ericsson S001 offers a huge 3.3-inch 480 x 854 AMOLED display, an 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and smile-shutter control, mobile TV, high-speed internet and GPS.

Among the features of this latest phone from Sony Ericsson:

GSM/CDMA connectivity

Bluetooth

1-Seg digital TV

Electronic payments

Preinstalled navigation software

Internet browser

The Sony Ericsson S001 is available in black, pink and green with gold trims.

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MotoPrizm, a 2G full touch phone, is the Korean version of the Motorola Crave ZN4. The Motorolla MotoPrizm was officially launched in Korea sporting a good-looking orange version. Motorola has blessed the Prizm with 840 x 480 pixels touchscreen display as well as some other great features.

Features:

3 megapixel camera

2.8-inch WVGA screen

Bluetooth connectivity

A satellite mobile TV receiver (S-DMB)

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Mobile phones were never meant to get wet and apparently such cases are purely accidental. Moisture is a leading cause of cell phone returns but with the F-01A phone, you can practically bring it along the next time you take a dip.

The F-01A feature’s AuthenTec’s TouchStone waterproof packaging, TruePrint fingerprint technology and TrueNav navigational controls.

The F-01A is based on a Symbian operating system and features a 3.5-inch widescreen VGA touchscreen display, 5.2 megapixel camera with Autofocus, built-in GPS using Mobile Google Maps with Street View, e-Wallet mobile payment capability, and a 1Seg mobile TV tuner.

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One of the hot phones of the year, the Nokia N96, will finally arrive at the American shores in Q4 of 2008. The N96 was introduced to us in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and will be targeted at 3G/HSDPA networks. Featuring a 2.8 inch screen, the phone will come with 16 gigs of memory in a sleek package.

Touted as an entertainment phone, it supports a range of video formats (including Windows Media) along with integration with popular video download services, allowing you to purchase, download and play TV shows and movies right on the phone. It features a convenient kick stand for handsfree viewing.

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Tags: 3G, cameraphone, Cell Phones, HSDPA, mobile tv, navigation, Nokia

Asia definitely gets the much better phones in the market - even better than the ones in the US or in Europe. The Samsung SCH-F639 CDMA slider mobile phone is another example of this. It looks very similar to the U600 ultra slim phone. In fact, it is the CDMA version of the U600 as its supports CDMA 2000 1X 800 MHz mobile.

Aside from that, the Samsung F639 supports DMB or Digital Media Broadcasting that allows the phone to receive multimedia signals like radio, TV, and datacasting to your phone. Guess what, mobile TV!

via: samsung mobile

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Swisscom customers in Switzerland can now enjoy a full 20 channels on their cell phones, thanks to Bluewin TV, Swisscom’s DVB-H-based mobile television services. About 44% of the Swiss population will benefit from the wide coverage offered. But fret not if you don’t have a DVB-H-enabled handset as Bluewin mobile TV will also be available on Vodafone Live! portal through UMTS/EDGE. Time to start saving up for that N96 I think!
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Next in line with touch-screen mobile devices is Motorola. Its latest Mobile TV device, the DH02, is a personalized TV/multimedia entertainment center featuring a touch-screen interface along with navigation capabilities. The DH02 features a click, drag and scroll icon-based menus. With support for HSDPA/GPRS support, operators can deliver rich services to their customers.

The phone supports DVB-H TV with PVR capabilities, including live pause and frame grabbing, as well as GPS and Tele Atlas map views. The hi-res WQVGA display lets you enjoy video at 25 frames-per-second. The DH02 supports microSD memory cards for storing user-generated content.

Obviously, it has Bluetooth capabilities as well. No word on the pricing yet, but you can catch the DH02 in action at CTIA Wireless 2008.

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You know how we always describe a handset as being 1-Seg capable when it has a TV tuner? Well, DiBcom announces the world’s first DVB-SH receiver so we can also watch satellite/terrestrial mobile TV like the Japanese can. Being DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting from Satellite to Handhelds) compliant means the receiver is compatible with higher bands of DVB-H such as the S-band. This chip named DIB29098, is the first one that can support dual antennae on a single chip (Diversity-2). It will be showcased on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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MobiTV announced that its mobile TV application is now available for the BlackBerr Pearl 8130 smartphone. With the broadest collection of live TV and other video/music content for mobile users, this is good news for Pearl users who were missing out the feature. The CDMA phone, which is compatible with EV-DO networks, did not have a full mobile TV app until now.

BlackBerry 8130 users can purchase MobiTV through either their wireless provider or through www.mobitv.com. It is also available on Handango. The TV application is on display at the CES 2008 in booth 30333 South Hall 3.

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Clearly, modern day humans enjoy mobility so much, we’re finding ways to make everything portable. With the advent of the mobile TV, various phones such as LG employed the technology. And who wouldn’t want to watch mobile TV with the X Games running on it and NVIDIA creating the Graphics Processing Units for handhelds? With that said, it’s inevitable for new mobile TV companies such as Yamgo to enter the market. After the successful run of its beta phase on August 2007, the company formally launched its service.

Yamgo focuses on sports, music and news, which makes it undeniably youth-oriented. Yamgo says they will also include fashion, cartoon, games, comedy and films in their line-up. Ian Mullins, the CEO of Yamgo, said:

We are using extreme sport as the initial content to demonstrate the service. Extreme sports are a perfect fit for the short, sharp burst entertainment needs of mobile content consumers.

Yamgo is accessible on your mobile phones through yamgo.mobi with yamgo.tv featuring downloads and similar.

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Verizon announced that the Verizon V CAST Mobile TV service is now available to its customers in Central Arkansas, allowing them to enjoy up-to-the-minute news, sports and TV shows right on their cell phones while on the go. The mobile TV service from Verizon includes live shows and content from CBS, Comedy Central, ESPN, Fox, NBC and Nickelodeon, with shows covering a broad range of ages. Parental control features are available as well.

The Verizon Red Hot Deal Days promo is running between August 12 and September 3, so V-CAST Mobile TV enabled phones are available for a lower price. The LG VX9400 phone, for example, is priced at US $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Of course, it is a bit off-putting that the monthly access package for the TV content ranges from $13 to $25/month.

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