I've had both Real One and today tried out MobiTV on my Sanyo 5300, thought
I would share some impressions.

I was not at all impressed with Real One. Basically, you are looking a
still pictures that change infrequently. News stories seemed to me to
infrequently update, same story might be carried for a few days. Not all
channels had "video", if I could abuse the term to refer to what they do
as such. I dropped my Real One subscription

MobiTV is an improvement, but, if you are expecting TV in the palm of your
hand, this is not it. It still a series of still shots, however, they
change much more rapidly, on average every 2 to 3 seconds. There is a much
broader selection of channels to choose from. Unfortunately, CNN is not one
of the choices.

The screen on the Sanyo 5300 is pretty good size compared to say the 8100,
and I didn't have to squint too bad to see what was going on.

On the Sanyo 5300, the sound comes out the back speaker, which is tinny and
distant. I think to use this service you would need a headset.

There was about 11 channels, MSNBC, TLC, Discovery, a few others I didn't
recall, we got kids cartoons on one channel. On the latter channel, the
rotation of stills was pretty slow. On the news station, Bush was
speaking, and the change of stills was pretty rapid, so you could see his
head move by degrees, it was almost not distracting.

Clearly, the technology is coming along way. A couple of years ago I
thought my ATT pocketnet was state of the art, it seems like an Atari ping
pong game now by comparison. You can connect the dots and imagine what this
will be like in 5 years.

Where would you use this? I am not sure yet, I just had to burn $11 bucks
to see what it would do. I guess waiting at airports, waiting in
restaurants, waiting some place for something else to happen. Its a geek
toy.





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