Thursday, July 10, 2003

NEC Develops Phone with Digital TV Receiver

NEC showed a mobile phone equipped with a receiver for terrestrial broadcasts of digital TV. The prototype phone, which is based on NEC's W-CDMA silicon, uses the same antenna for digital TV broadcasting, UHF tuning and OFDM. In Japan, terrestrial digital TV broadcasting service will commence from December 2003 in major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka districts.
http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0307/1001.html