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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]
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Ben Robinson
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 next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! 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... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
