Samsung P960 includes Silicon Motion DVB-H tuner…

Silicon Motion Technology has announced its FC2750 DVB-H(1) mobile TV tuner has been selected by Samsung for its recently launched SGH-P960 mobile phone, which will be available in many European markets.

I wrote about the Samsung P960 recently, but it’s always nice to be able to add just a little extra detail - as you might remember, the P960 is a slider, that supports a bunch of DVB-H variants for Europe. There’s also a stackload of memory on-board to allow it to do the “pause live TV” function that we are also familiar with in our PVRs these days….

More on the FC2750 though - this is a complete DVB-H solution, inlcuding a mobile TV tuner IC from Silicon Motion’s FCI product line and a baseband IC from Samsung. This solution offers low-power consumption, a small form factor, and high receive sensitivity that provides the P960 with exceptional mobile TV performance capabilities.

Interestingly, the joint dev with Samsung has also yielded solutions for the T-DMB and S-DMB standards that are popular in the Korean market - so at some point we could potentially see a multi-standard, all-singing and dancing chip, that could be re-pruposed simply by means of low-level software instructions - and suddenly you have economies of scale for embedding… just what Mobile TV needs!
[Via: 3G.co.uk]