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Samsung announced today P960, a DVB-H slider phone that supports both of European mobile TV standards, Digital Video Broadcast - Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Service (DVB-CBMS) and Open Mobile Alliance Mobile Broadcast Service Enabler Suite (OMA-BCAST). The device features all the up-to-date technologies within a slim 16.7mm thin metal body, softly brushed with hairline pattern.

P960 offers an optimized television-on-the-go experience with a large 2.6″ QVGA TFT screen with vivid 262K color image-enhancing DNIe. TV watching experience is enriched by numerous innovative DVB-H features such as Electronic Service Guide (ESG) that provides an on-screen TV guide and Picture in Picture (PIP) that allows users to view two channels at once, and Time-Shifting feature that shifts TV program schedule when a show is interrupted by incoming calls.

A 3 megapixel camera with power LED, a music player with Music Library feature and codec support, a FM radio with RDS for around the clock news and music, are all included in P960 to provide the users convenience and enhancement in both audio and visual entertainment life. 

DVB-CBMS is DVB Forum initiated DVB-H standard based on DVB-T standard, currently available in Italy through H3G, TI and Voda. It will soon become available in France, Belgium, Poland and Russia. OMA-BCAST is OMA initiated DVB-H standard known as the next generation DVB-H solution. It will first become available in Netherland and will continue to be adopted in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. More Samsung P960 photos at next page.

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AT&T today announced a new Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) for iPhone, designed to give iPhone customers with disabilities the choice of unlimited text messaging, Web browsing for $40 a month.

“Our Text Accessibility Plan allows customers who are deaf or have hearing or speech disabilities to literally tap out their communications on the go,” said Carlton Hill, vice president of Product Management, Voice Products and Affiliate Marketing for AT&T’s wireless unit. “Now with TAP for iPhone, users can tap, flick and pinch the innovative Multi-Touch touch screen for a completely new world of functionality.”

This new plan is available to new and current iPhone users with qualifying disabilities through AT&T’s National Center for Customers with Disabilities (NCCD). To qualify for the iPhone TAP, customers must complete an application for eligibility. The form is available for download at http://www.wireless.att.com/about/disability-resources/text-accessibility-plan-for-iphone.jsp.

During the iPhone activation process, customers sign up for a standard iPhone voice and data plan. After the iPhone is activated, customers can e-mail, fax or mail the eligibility form back to the NCCD to change their rate plan to the TAP for iPhone. Current iPhone customers who qualify may also submit the NCCD application to request the TAP for iPhone.

The FCC site has revealed some details about a new, basic clamshell from LG. The AX-300 is a standard dual-band CDMA phone with 1xRTT data. It has an internal antenna, a camera of undetermined quality, a speakerphone, and Bluetooth. ...

Rich media-sharing application CellSpin launches a new feature that lets anyone share audio, video, pictures or text from their mobile phone to their favorite social networking sites, meaning that users should not to wait to get on their computers just to post on their Facebook and MySpace pages. It supports Symbian, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry operating systems. And it’s free.

CellSpin is also supporting eBay auctions as well as post to Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal and Live Spaces.

Bobby Singh, CEO of CellSpin, said, it’s the easiest mobile application to use for sharing all four media types.  He expects to expand updating via mobile phones to other social network Web sites later this year.

The CellSpin software is now available on 300+ mobile phone models worldwide.

Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in San Jose, CA, and dedicated to making the Mobile 2.0 experience.

To add the CellSpin mobile blogging web application to your MySpace profile, click here and to add it your Facebook profile, visit here. It’s worthy to try.

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Your cellphone one day will not only be used for making a call, sending text messages or enjoying mobile entertainment, but also could be a tool for your medical imaging. Your doctor will transmit your medical information from his server into your mobile phone’s screen.

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, developed an innovative concept to allow cell phone could be used to make medical imaging accessible to billions of people around the world.

“Medical imaging is something we take for granted in industrialized countries,” said Boris Rubinsky, UC Berkeley professor, but can be an expensive thing for poorer countries. “Our new system would make imaging technology inexpensive and accessible for these underserved populations.”

Rubinsky and his team came up with the novel idea to create a new system by establishing a
large center where all resources for operation and maintenance can be fully stored. This central location would be used to service multiple remote sites and collect the raw data from the patients. That’s where the cell phone comes in.

The phone would transmit the raw data to the central server to create an image and then relay it back to the cell phone. The patient can viewed it on cell phone’s screen.

It’s almost possible, Rubinsky said, and the screen size of a cell phone should not be a major impediment since “people are able to watch full movies on their iPods.” It’s make sense, really.

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