Mobile DTV coming to Washington, Baltimore soon.
LAS VEGAS— Okay, so the Nexus One may have Google's love and affection, but the Android-powered Samsung Moment for Sprint is getting something nifty, too: free mobile TV.
Today Samsung announced that the Moment would be the first tv mobile phone to feature Mobile DTV, the new free-to-air mobile TV standard that's launching early this year. The Mobile DTV-equipped Moment will be part of a customer trial in Washington and Baltimore during the first quarter of 2010, Samsung said.
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Mobile DTV allows local broadcasters to transmit free digital signals to cell phones and portable devices using their existing broadcast spectrum. More than 35 stations are already online, with five in Las Vegas doing demonstrations at CES. Stations in 96 of the top 100 US markets have signed up to broadcast mobile TV, according to the Open Mobile Video Coalition, the trade organization behind Mobile DTV. You can learn a lot more about Mobile DTV in our previous story.
According to a Samsung press release, the Moment was chosen because of its big, bright 3.2-inch AMOLED display, which allows for wide viewing angles. Sprint previously said that the Moment, which runs Android 1.6, will get an update to Android 2.1 – the same version that's running on the Nexus One – soon.
The choice of the Moment is interesting because up until now, most of the Mobile DTV sample phones we've seen have been from competing manufacturer LG. Samsung and LG merged their two competing, proposed standards, along with some other partners, to form the final Mobile DTV standard.
There's no word on when the DTV-equipped Moment will be available to the wider public.
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