KYOCERA Unveils the World’s Thinnest Sliding-Face Mobile phone with One-Seg capability
I don’t know why, but I always get a feeling as Japanese manufacturer is looking for the tiniest feature in a product to make it the world’s first, of course with much research done before jumping to that conclusion. Anyhow, this time the thinness and One-Seq compatibility is the feature that makes Kyocera’s new mobile phone the world’s first. The newly designed SA001 is a sliding face type mobile phone with capability of receiving one-Seg signal built for Japanese domestic mobile service provider “au”. Read more
One-Seg Digital Broadcasts receiver tuner module by Sharp
Today Sharp unveiled a new receiver tuner module for one-seg digital terrestrial broadcast capable of receiving two one-seg programs simultaneously. According to JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association) the percentage of mobile handset shipments in Japan with the capability to receive One-seg programs exceeded 85% in December 2008. The one-seg capability is considered as an added value feature for the mobile manufacturers in an effort to differentiate their handset from other manufacturers in a highly competitive market. Read more
Industry first one-seg capable portable DVD player by Toshiba
“SD-P73DTW” the new Toshiba’s potable DVD player comes with a built in one-seg tuner capable of recording One Segment Broadcasting (one-seg) onto SD, SDHC, microSD and microSDHC. The recorded programs by “SD-P73DTW” can be viewed with LCD TVs or mobile phones which are equipped with one-seg functionality. The “SD-P73DTW” is capable of normal real time recoding as well as EPG recording or reserved recording. The “SD-P73DTW” gives the freedom of simultaneous viewing of DVD and one-seg recording to the user. Read more
New Panasonic DIGA DVD recorders
Panasonic just made an announcement of a new addition to its DIGA series High vision DVD recorders equipped with HDD. Both “DMR-xp15” and “DMR-XP25V” come with 250GB HDD. The “DMR-XP25V” additionally comes with VHS slot. These new series comes with new generation system LSI which company calls it “UniPhier” and equipped with the second generation MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder which is an advanced AVC encoder. Read more
