NEC and Vodafone launch mobile phone built-in analog TV tuner

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:54:31 +0900
> From: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp>
>
>
> Source: Gadget Watch No. 119 (from J@pan Inc magazine) 
> <http://www.japaninc.com/newsletters/index.html?list=gw>
>
> Name: NEC V601N (J-N51)
> Category: Mobile phones
> Price: TBA
> Release date in Japan: early December
>
> The Gist: Now, regular GW readers will know that I generally steer
> well clear of reporting on developments in the mobile phone sector.
> The reason for this is twofold: Firstly, I don't use all the fancy
> functions on mobile phones and only want one in order to speak to
> people a long way away and, secondly, because some time ago I made a
> small error reporting a function on a mobile and half the industry and
> about a gadzillion mobile phone addicts emailed me telling me what an
> idiot I was. Which I already knew. But there is an exception to every
> rule, and the V601N from NEC (sold as the J-N51 by  Vodafone) is
> what's made me do it. This is the first mobile phone in the country to
> house an integral terrestrial analog TV tuner. It may even be (visibly
> flinches, anticipating ensuing corrective email onslaught) the first
> in the world to do so. That's amazing -- at only 24mm thick in its
> closed, clamshell form (opened up it's completely invisible), you
> wouldn't think it possible to squeeze that kind of technology into it.
> The phone has a 2.2-inch TFT screen displaying 216x160 dots, you can
> capture stills from the TV in MPEG-4 and you can even use the thing as
> a remote control for your television, if you feel like it. Mad. But
> I'm saying nothing more.
>
> More info: http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0310/1402.html (in Japanese)
>
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> larger picture 
> <http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/parts/image_for_link/55509-16014-1-1.html>
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> 48x95x24mm 119g
>
> English press release 
> <http://www.vodafone.jp/english/release/2003/031014e.pdf>
>
>
> Adam
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