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Motorola will release a tablet with TV
PHONE MAKER Motorola plans to release a tablet that will let users watch television.
The device will have a 10-inch screen and run Google's Android operating system. It could be in US shops by Autumn.
It seems Motorola's cunning plan is to tie the tablet closely to Verizon's FIOS digital pay-television service.
According to the Financial Times, the tablet market is seen as the next battleground in the mobile devices marketing contest that has pit myriad device makers and Microsoft, Google and Research in Motion against Apple.
However the TV idea is new and and could help other device makers compete against the Ipad.
After all there has to be something a tablet is good for other than presenting restaurant menus or composing shopping lists in the dark.
Apparently the reason that the Ipad does not have a television service was because Steve Jobs contacted TV programmers and told them how much they could pay him for delivering the service. When they stopped laughing and told him to go forth and multiply, the Ipad never got TV because that would have meant Steve Jobs having to negotiate rather than dictate.
Motorola's device will also fix some other weaknesses in the Ipad caused by Jobs's arrogant obstinacy. It will support Adobe Flash, the software that delivers some 90 per cent of web videos.
It will also be thinner and lighter than the Ipad and will let users share its wireless data connection with nearby devices.
It will also have two cameras, one for taking photos and the other facing the user for video conferencing.
And it will let users watch TV. µ
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Is this Live TV, the same as on a real normal TV? Or is it some crappy download that is always late?
I want Freeview as basic. And I would like SKY Satellite tv but I think that the sky dish on my head might be a bit OTT.
Surely someone can do Freeview, we have had TV on mobile phones in the past. Why not now?
I think that given before iTunes the commercial market for online distribution was virtually non-existant (because the execs had to be talked into it - as has been widely reported on in the past, for those paying attention to how we got to where we are today) it seems inaccurate to suggest Jobs isn't able negotiate. Both NeXT & Apple and Pixar & Disney buyouts also great examples of that in practice, as bullish as Jobs may be.
Regarding comments about "using Flash on phones for years". Flash for mobile devices has been out for around a month now, the release has been infamously overdue with the touted release date repeatedly pushed back (it's over a year late).
What existed before (e.g. on Nokia's Symbian devices) was Flash Light - a far cry from full Flash compatibility and not compatible with modern Flash content and it was buggy and performed slowly (even with simple vector animations) on the last 3 Symbian devices I owned.
It was (almost) as horrible on my Pocket PC; it was still limited in functionality, but the performance was better on typically more powerful Pocket PC devices.
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OF THE PACK IN COMMUCASION
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Delighted to read your observations re.
Steve Jobs arrogance. He is the Rupert Murdoch of Hi Tech.Along with other similar people. They seem to forget they
made money giving us what we want not
patronising us and dictating what in their opinion is good for us.
I have been using flash player on various mobile devises for years and have never experienced a crash.