A smaller, lower power chip for T-DMB TV cellphones is coming fro...
A smaller, lower power chip for T-DMB TV cellphones is coming from Frontier Silicon, the company said Wed. The Kino 2 chip, to be used in TV-to-mobile devices by Samsung and others, will enable smaller phones with longer battery…
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life and lower cost, the company said. The T-DMB TV-to-cellphone platform is established in S. Korea and has some support in China and India. But Samsung and some operators plan deployment in Germany and Norway this year, for coverage of the World Cup soccer games. The rival DVB-H platform has the edge in European trials for TV broadcasts to handheld mobiles, but T-DMB’s backers are betting it has a shot at a share of market, because the video platform is based on existing DAB digital radio service widely in place in Europe. Cellphones using the Frontier Silicon chip also will receive DAB radio programs, the company said.