29 Mar
It’s about time that AT&T catches up with Verizon and Sprint in the mobile TV race. They finally started making sense to me when they proposed a mobile TV service yesterday. Right now, I am not worried at all if the 3G network from AT&T can’t handle it. It can already handle live video, so why couldn’t it handle regular TV? I just hope they gain a competetive edge in this market by lowering the prices. They are already beat by Verizon in the most widespread network in the U.S. Maybe they could go ahead of Verizon in at least one more area. And what better area other than multimedia content?
Right now, it doesn’t look that many phones have mobile TV support, let alone 3G capabilities. I am worried about you AT&T. Verizon has most, if not all of their phones equipped with EV-DO. If you don’t step up your game in the phone department, you might lose your game to Verizon. I don’t know if I have mentioned it already, but I hate Verizon even though it offers one of the most comprehensive cell phone service in terms of wide-spread internet access and cell phone service coverage. Their high prices is what makes me want to scream. This is very believable considering I am from the poor man’s cell phone service, T-Mobile.
All in all, I am rooting for you, AT&T! Probably only because I don’t want for them to fall into the hands of Verizon. Other than that, I pretty much hate AT&T’s guts (No offense to all you AT&T fans
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17 Mar
I really don’t know what’s with me and Apple. I think we are starting to having a relationship with all of these posts. But anyways, Microsoft attempts to kill the iPhone trend with a deal with licensing Adobe’s flash for mobile devices dubbed “Flash Lite.” Microsoft finally has a comeback that looks like it will do something to encourage end-users to buy their Windows Smartphone. I’m sorry I have to betray you Apple, but this looks like it can do some damage to your sales. This deal actually encourages me to get a T-Mobile Dash (if they’re still available in May for the same price) knowing that it could play YouTube content.
Looking at the Adobe Flash lite version comparison chart, Flash lite 3 is inferior to the Flash Player 7 SDK. As long at YouTube could work, I am all for it.
But with all these applications focusing on the iPhone and Windows Mobile OS devices, who is focusing on the BlackBerry? Yeah, I know it isn’t meant for things like this because of it’s “professional” storefront, but can that stop us from having a little bit of fun with it once and a while?