TV Chip for iPhone
Yes, the Apple iPhone goes on sale Friday. Mr. Packer from Long Island was first in line at the Apple Store in New York. He started the queue at 5:00 a.m. on Monday. Read the "First in Line" blog.
Watch his interview here. For such an effort, he deserves a digg.
I still think it will be able to receive live TV signals from towers and/or satellites. We blogged about Apple’s trademark filing during CES 2006. Now consider this new chipset from Samsung, via EETimes:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has started sampling a multi-standard channel decoder and multi-band radio frequency tuner chipset made using its 65-nm process that it says supports almost all mobile TV standards including DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T, and terrestrial DMB.
Volume production of the part is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2007.
The chipset is being offered either as two standalone ICs or as a system-in-chip package (SiP).
"Although a new market, we see high growth potential in mobile TV applications," said Yiwan Wong, vice president, Marketing Team, System LSI Division, Semiconductor Business, Samsung Electronics.
Wong added the part will initially be targeted at the European and Asian markets.
Samsung says the multi-band RF tuner, which receives the analog broadcast signal, has a simplified circuit structure by applying a low IF to compliment the conventional zero IF. It is also a general purpose tuner that supports UHF, VHF and L-band commonly used in Europe and the U.S.
The company says the chipset requires no external low noise amplifier (LNA) and additional memory chips, significantly reducing the bill-of-materials (BOM) cost of the total system. The chip set supports Link Layer processing to output fully error-corrected IP datagrams or MPEG2 transport streams.
The iPhone introduction is only the beginning of the new mobile revolution. Keep up with the news if you can.
And now, the official reviews…
David Pogue of The New York Times:
Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal:
