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RAmos will be pleased about being the first manufacturer to support CMMB on its portable media player. CMMB or China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting is China’s answer to Europe’s DVB and will be on service in 37 cities across China. RAmos’ iTV will no doubt be a hot device with the Beijing Olympics coming in a forthnight. The iTV has a 4.3-inch screen, enough viewing space to watch closely and appreciate the floor exercise.

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We didn’t know that by adding a DMB/DAB tuner the Samsung P2 is going to gain a nifty kickstand. I’d still go for an antenna that completely folds and vanishes into the casing but the benefit of having a built-in kickstand almost outweighs the inconvenience of having extra appendage. Specs of the PB2 is similar to the P2 except for the added mobile TV and digital radio support. Prices are as follows: 4 GB 239000 won ($229); 8 GB 309000 won ($296), 16 GB389000 won ($372).

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TG’s Sambo Windows CE 5.0 PMP has a 4.8-inch 800×480 screen and powered by an RMI AU 1250 to 700MHz CPU. It’s powered like a UMPC with a processor almost as fast as a sub-notebook, matched with a rather disappointing 128MB of RAM. It has WiFi, T-DMB, plays MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, ASF, DivX3.1 1/4x/5x, Xvid 1.0 Video files, MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG. Akihabaranews says it packs 16GB of HDD, but it must be 16GB of flash memory or 160GB of HDD right?

This is a Korean release only priced at 300 euros or $466. I wonder with the screen at 4.8 inches they didn’t think of putting GPS in it. It’s a Korean device after all.

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Babiken claims the BI-DTV3200 and we’re not in the mood to doubt them. The truth is that Babiken had a previous TV Phone phone model, the BI-A880, but, they readily admit, it wasn’t very successful outside China because of it tunes into DMB whereas even in China where DMB is the adopted standard, there are too few channels to make people interested.. The BI-DTV3200 is DVB-T, which should be spot on for the European and U.S. market. You can watch DVB-T channels on its big 3.2 (320 x 240-pixel) screen. As a phone, it works on 900/1800MHz networks. There’s stereo Bluetooth, full screen viewing of 3GP,MP4, NES gaming and either a 1.3 megapixel or 13 megapixel camera at the back. You can enquire for prices at the link below.

Babiken also brought us this phone with zoom lens in January.

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If the pretty D7 and D5 PMP’s from D’Cube didn’t appeal to you, the new D9 will. There’s something about the looks of the D9 that says it’s a good accessory to have in your car, home and even purse. It has a 3.5-inch 260,000 color 320 × 240 resolution TFT LCD screen and support for AVI, WMV, MP3, WMA, JPEG files. It’s 11.8mm slim and if you’re in Korea, you can tune in to free digital TV with the built-in T-DMB tuner. It is available in 2GB and 4GB versions, both with microSD memory expansion and kickstand. Starts at For the 4GB, it’s 128,000 won or $131.

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There already exists 1-seg mobile digital TVs small enough to fit into your mobile phone, but Sharp took things a step further and made the smallest digital TV tuner in the world. The VA3A5JZ922 is about a third smaller than existing models at 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.9mm. And if you know what the dimensions of a penny are, yes the TV tuner is smaller and thinner than that as well. Sharp says that millions of this little thing are going to be produced each month, so it looks like digital TV is going to be a staple of mobile phones in the future. At least in Japan, anyway.

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If you’ve ever been to Tokyo, you’ll know that cellphone TVs are big in Japan. It comes as no surprise to me that the Japanese just recently reached the 20 million milestone. Japan has reached the remarkable number after only two years of service. The last million handset was shipped during the month of December 2007. Japan’s 1-SEG network was launched April 1 2006 and delivers QVGA-quality broadcasts. OneSeg uses a 416kbps signal and are delivered for free with no DRM protection.

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If you can’t bear to be away from the tube for five seconds, PacketVideo has a new receiver that’ll bring your mobile TV programs to any WiFi-enabled device - specifically the iPhone, the iPod Touch, the Nokia N-series, or any HTC device. The 6.4 x 1.8 x 4-cm block was tested on an iPod Touch at the Mobile World Congress and well, it really does what it’s supposed to do! Different version of PacketVideo can also support over-the-air DVB-H and MediaFLO Broadcasting and TDtv and WiMAX live streaming. Watch out for it sometime this year.

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The Motorola DH01 is supposed to be a mobile TV PMP but besides the standard audio and video playback and photo viewing features, the DH01 doesn’t actually do much. Sure the 4.3-inch screen is large enough for decent video watching, but reports said that the video quality still looked a little pixelated. The DH01 isn’t exactly the most compact device either and despite its size, it does NOT have WiFi, GPS, nor enough internal memory to support live TV buffering for longe than five minutes. To give Motorola some credit, the DH01 is their first mobile TV device; hopefully, they’ll add features worth buying in their later models. Watch out for the DH01 on July 2008.

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The missing Nseries is here. The Nokia N96, not disappointingly, takes a lot of aesthetic cues from the N81 but moves like the N95. Yep, it’s a dual slider and does multi-media much like the N95 only better. First off is the 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss with autofocus. Almost no improvement until you start using the video camera mode, which in here takes VGA resolution videos at 30 fps. Not as good as the LG Viewty, but good enough. It’s practically a high-end PMP with MPEG-4, WMV9 (Windows Media), Flash Video, H.264 video, MP3, AAC and WMA file support plus DVB-H TV and FM radio with RDS. Ready for more. How about GPS with photo tagging. Yes, take a picture and the GPS can remember the location for you. Connectivity? It’s got 3G, HSDPA, WiFi. The only miss here is the lack of touch screen. Still a resounding wow for Nokia.

Price is a N95-ish $740. Video after the break.

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