Samsung releases mobile-tv phone — MobileMonday Global: Industry News

^{150 minutes of DMB with one charge} Samsung releases mobile-tv phone

23 May 2005 at 08:58 GMT Timo Poropudas

Samsung Electronics has released a satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) phone, the SCH-B130, hard on the heels of the launch of satellite DMB service in Korea. The model features a 2.34-inch liquid crystal display wide screen that matches high-resolution quarter video graphics array (QVGA). It boasts a multi-tasking function, which enables users to send text messages or talk on the phone while watching DMB. Its low energy battery allows users to watch DMB for 150 minutes, according to chosun.com –web service. The phone also has a built-in 1.3 megapixel digital camera, MP3 player, and reduced size multimedia cards, and can be connected to an external TV through a TV-out connector. Before the release of the SCH-B130 phone, there had been two types of satellite DMB phone in market: The SCH-B100 that Samsung released in January and the side-slide style IMB-1000 of SK Teletech. Samsung said that it would also launch a side-slide SCH-B200 phone within the first half of this year.