This is cool stuff. Could be a whole new way for soccer mom's to play Disney channel's to the kiddies in the back of the minivan. But times are changing fast.
When XM and Sirius launched, the best mobile internet speed you could get was around 14 kbps and now it's probably 500 kbps on EVDO cell phones. Doesn't it make sense that the wireless voice providers can overtake the satellite guys in the very near future? I can already stream XM/Sirius on my EVDO cell phone. I really think Sprint/Verizon/Cingular is going to win the race to dominance in the mobile video market.
The terrestrial wireless guys will also get you a video inside without line of sight. However, there's still a market for the satellite mobile video market like in the boonies away from interstates and in domestic aircraft where cell phone signals are too faint at altitude.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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This is cool stuff. Could be a whole new way for soccer mom's to play Disney channel's to the kiddies in the back of the minivan. But times are changing fast.
When XM and Sirius launched, the best mobile internet speed you could get was around 14 kbps and now it's probably 500 kbps on EVDO cell phones. Doesn't it make sense that the wireless voice providers can overtake the satellite guys in the very near future? I can already stream XM/Sirius on my EVDO cell phone. I really think Sprint/Verizon/Cingular is going to win the race to dominance in the mobile video market.
The terrestrial wireless guys will also get you a video inside without line of sight. However, there's still a market for the satellite mobile video market like in the boonies away from interstates and in domestic aircraft where cell phone signals are too faint at altitude.
That's what it looks like to me.