Qualcomm FLO TV handheld in the works?
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Aug 26th 2009 11:33AM
posted Aug 26th 2009 11:33AM
According to gdgt, Qualcomm -- which usually sticks to research, design, and the fabless chip game -- is fixin' to produce something called the Personal Television, for use with its FLO TV network. The handheld device is alleged to feature a capacitive touchscreen, a swipe and gesture-driven UI, 4GB of memory, built-in stereo speakers, and enough juice for five hours of video, fifteen hours of music, or three hundred stand-by hours. Currently, FLO TV is only available on a limited number of phones, from the likes of AT&T and Verizon in the States, although the company has said that they're planning on bringing it to other phones (via add-on peripherals) including the iPhone and WinMo devices. Can we offer one word of advice? You might want to go with a name besides "Personal Television." Really, it sounds so very 2006.
That looks awesome
Did Chip Foose draw that?
he's not the only industrial designer...
if you note the lower right watermark, it's obvious that the design work was done by frog Design. You can search them on Google. One of the big 5 design firms in the world along-side IDEO and the sort.
Joke fail? The style is like chip foose's auto drawings. :|
Its serious business One...
It will never "FLO" for me if it is restricted to their service and does not have full (or at least adequate) codec support. I would never buy an item tied to one service.
Wait until you see the HTC Whitestone 2 coming out in 2010 with WM7 + Flo TV (with Zune experience)..
They should call it the FloView
I wonder if this is going to run snapdragon, seeing that is it Quallcomm.
If you have ever used FLO TV, you know that it is terrible. Minimal channels that don't air what is on the tube at home. Used it for a few months on my LG Voyager and dumped it. Get a smart phone and a Slingbox instead.
Broadcast television is on the way out. Internet media consumption will kill it like it killed the newspaper. Watching TV on your PC is the next logical step.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/rodr0069/myblog/2009/09/how-can-i-watch-tv-on-my-pc.html
Broadcast television is on the way out. Internet media consumption will kill it like it killed the newspaper. Watching TV on your PC is the next logical step.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/rodr0069/myblog/2009/09/how-can-i-watch-tv-on-my-pc.html