Dutch digital television (DVB-T) operator Digitenne and Nokia are testing TV signals on mobile handsets, according to a Dutch industry journal. Nokia phones equipped with a TV receiver are currently tested by research institute TNO Telecom, which wouldn't comment on the experiments. Commercial applications are not expected until 2007, reports say.
Digitenne is a joint venture of Dutch broadcasters, telecom operator KPN and NOB, a Dutch broadcasting facilitator. The company is offering a mix of public and commercial channels and a number of international themed channels in the western part of the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, Japan Broadcasting Corp and five private-sector broadcasters from Japan will start services of terrestrial digital broadcasting for cellular phones in fiscal year 2005. Because makers will use low-temperature co-fired ceramics, the tuners can become as thin as 1.4mm.
Last week KDDI R&D Laboratories and KDDI Corp already showed a mobile phone terminal that receives digital terrestrial TV broadcasting. A broadcasting reception function is automatically initiated from a communications center, therefore emergency warning broadcasts can be displayed on the screens of cellular phones.
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that would be pretty cool better than the little games the phones come with