Germany’s been one of the European countries protesting the hardest against the EU’s selection of DVB-H as the union’s mobile TV standard of choice — and for good reason, seeing how it already had a nice little chunk of cash sunk into T-DMB. Vodafone Germany is actually looking at rolling out a pair of phones next month that simply pull down plain ol’ DVB-T signals — the kind generally destined for home televisions, not pockets.
This obviously gives the service a far larger footprint and content profile right off the bat, but the tradeoff is that DVB-T was never designed for the small screen and suffers from a greater power draw than either DVB-H or T-DMB.
Anyhoo, the phones in question are the Windows Mobile-powered g-Smart t600 from Gigabyte alongside LG’s HB620T clamshell. Both are expected to go out the door for about €100 ($159) on contract, apparently, which is just as well seeing how the t600 lacked 3G data last time we checked in on it.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
[...] announced DVB-T mobile phones Vodafone Germany officially confirmed that it will be adding two new DVB-T mobile phone models to its range of mobile phones at the beginning of May [...]