LG Announces Three New Phones for Verizon
You can't say we don't have cool phones
So we don't have the cool Nokias or the iPhone, but this certainly strengthens VZW's lineup of high-end cool phones. The Blackberry Thunder (VZW exclusive) can't come soon enough.
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That doesn't matter as much to me. I live in SD, and given that VZW's TV service is farmed out to a third-party carrier that sets its own towers up it'll probably be a while before we get mobile TV here. Plus, with how I would watch videos on my phone (standing in the bank line, waiting at the doctor's office, etc.) it's pretty short-term, and the VCAST pack or youtube on my blackberry would more than suffice for bite-size viewing.
But I suppose for the urban markets that's more of an issue...
But I suppose for the urban markets that's more of an issue...
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meaning that the tv packages actually grab signal from tv transmitters attached to said third party carrier, or provider. essentially, unless VZW sees A TON of profit in an area slated for TV signal, they won't authorize that provider to broadcast it.
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Not quite right.
The folks at MediaFlo are providing the tv service for both AT&T and VZW. They haven't built out their network yet. It is a completely different set of towers for this service. I think that with the different standards endorsed by the EU for tv phones, we may see the companies fall back a bit on this. I can see it being the stepchild that everyone isn't sure what to do with. With LTE and Wimax being available, the new Open Access ideas that VZW is pursuing, the digital tv model that MediaFlo is providing seems to be a bit behind the times. No on-demand, a very small footprint of usability, and limited and exclusive channels doesn't seem to be the direction to go. I've been playing with internet radio on my Q and li...
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The folks at MediaFlo are providing the tv service for both AT&T and VZW. They haven't built out their network yet. It is a completely different set of towers for this service. I think that with the different standards endorsed by the EU for tv phones, we may see the companies fall back a bit on this. I can see it being the stepchild that everyone isn't sure what to do with. With LTE and Wimax being available, the new Open Access ideas that VZW is pursuing, the digital tv model that MediaFlo is providing seems to be a bit behind the times. No on-demand, a very small footprint of usability, and limited and exclusive channels doesn't seem to be the direction to go. I've been playing with internet radio on my Q and li...
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This is good news. Last year Verizon had nothing new in the showroom for "i-Day." They will still need to be very aggressive with the pricing of these devices (read: free or close to it) in order to keep people from going picking the, ahem, alternative; but they will make more money on the data revenue in the long run by taking a loss on the handsets now.
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