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The Podium

Tuesday, February 10

A TV in Every Pocket

By Brad

Cheaper laptops and devices like the iPhone are leading to a a coming explosion in mobile video, according to tech giant Cisco:

Almost 64 percent of the world’s mobile traffic will be video within the next five years, according to Cisco’s latest VNI (Visual Networking Index) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013 released Feb. 10. They key driver of the mobile traffic will be laptops, netbooks and smartphones connecting to the network.

Overall, Cisco predicts global mobile traffic will increase 66-fold with a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 131 percent over that same five-year period. The growth rate primarily reflects the anticipated migration of users to a 4G mobile Internet that will allow consumers to view more mobile video and access a variety of mobile broadband services.

Better still, all this growth is expected to be unaffected by the current economy:

Despite a bleak economic climate, Doug Webster, a senior director for service provider marketing at Cisco, said the trend to a unbiqitous mobile Internet is undeniable.

There were a half billion new subscribers to mobile networks last year alone,” Webster said. “Half of the world’s population is already on a mobile network. I really don’t think [the current economy] will have any great impact.”

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Reader Comments

Wow, that’s a nice innovation. Now I can use the features of TV in my mobile on less prices and get features of laptop, notebook and Tv in your mobile.

Steven

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  03/03  at  11:54 PM

Technologies are increasing day by day and I believe that this is really important for development. The features which you are providing in mobile phones are appreciable and will be widely accepted. After your inventions the outlook of the technology field will simply be different.

Carrol Spencer

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  03/04  at  01:33 AM

Yeah it is unbelievable! It will be so easy for everyone using such portable things.

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Liza

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  03/04  at  04:31 AM

In the year 1966, an obviously highly motivated engineer at Motorola dares to tackle the pocket TV idea. A few pieces of information come out: 1-1/8 inch screen diagonal, 29 transistors, operated by 4 batteries, energy consumption 1.5 Watt (about half of it to heat the cathode ray tube). Sadly enough the engineer passes away before he could even convince his employer of the market potential of his invention. A <a href=“http://www.taschenfernseher.de/doku/motorola1966.jpg”>nicely illustrated</a> article (500 kB) from the daily paper The Columbus Dispatch describes the background research and possible uses of the apparatus, but unfortunately does not say when the tiny Motorola will be available at last.

mercy

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  03/10  at  11:12 PM

In these days it is believed that technologies are developing day by day. The innovation you are taking about is simply awesome to facilitate one to have huge interaction worldwide.

Amy Cooper

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  03/26  at  11:28 PM
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