November 11, 2008

Apple's iPhone 3G became the top-selling mobile handset for U.S. adults in the third quarter, ending the Motorola Razr's long reign and signaling a shift in consumer tastes toward more feature-laden phones, according to new data from market research firm NPD Group.

October 22, 2008

Google is jumping into the mobile phone business with its new G1 phone. The G1 is available starting today for $179 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile.

September 22, 2008

Google and telecom carrier T-Mobile unveiled Tuesday the first mobile device powered by the Internet search giant's software, a smartphone seen as a potential rival to Apple's popular iPhone.

September 3, 2008

Approximately 573 million cell phone users are expected to join the mobile market emerging in Asia by the last quarter of 2012. Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam are expected to produce more cell phone subscribes.

Live Digital TV on Your Cell Phone

Texas Instruments on Oct. 21, 2004 announced development of the wireless industry’s first digital TV on a single chip for cell phones, which will capture broadcast signals and allow cell phone users to watch live broadcasts ranging from their favorite reality TV shows to major sporting events and breaking news. Code-named 'Hollywood,' the chip will receive live digital TV broadcasts using new television infrastructure that is being developed for cell phones, doing for cell phones what HDTV did for home TVs.

TI´s new ´Hollywood´ digital TV chip will combine the two biggest consumer electronics inventions of our time - the television and the cell phone.

"One by one, the industry´s most exciting consumer electronics are being integrated into wireless handsets, allowing consumers to get their news and entertainment whenever and wherever they want. With this new chip on the cell phone, users will enjoy digital, high-quality TV in real-time," said Gilles Delfassy, TI Senior Vice President and General Manager for TI´s Wireless Terminals Business Unit.

TI's "Hollywood" digital TV chip will support newly established and open digital TV broadcast standards for the wireless industry. Dedicated wireless networks supporting these standards will feature high-quality live broadcast TV (24-30 frames per second) paired with full audio to offer a more robust mobile viewing experience versus the one-to-15-frames-per-second streaming capability offered via cellular.

Leveraging TI's revolutionary digital RF processor (DRP) technology, TI is collapsing the traditional three-chip solution, which includes a tuner, OFDM demodulator and channel decoder processor, into the industry's first highly-integrated single chip for digital TV phones.