By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 7:08 AM
3 Italia has decided to give it’s DVB-H users free access to a whole bunch of channels: RAI 1, RAI 2, Mediaset, Sky Meteo 24, Current TV, and La3. This is at the same time as offer free internet acccess, up to 50Mb/day! At the press conference regarding this, it was explained that this is part of a new cross-media strategy to promote data services.
Handsets also got a look in with the Samsung F510 (below) getting introduced on to the network – this is in addition to LG HB620, Momedesign MD5, Garmin 900T and the Onda DH502HS USB device for watching on a PC.
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career
when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has
now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the
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He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently
became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years
when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make
your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device)
isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question
of why you continue to use it...
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