Samsung aims to produce a cell phone that can receive satellite TV broadcasts via a service that will provide up to 40 stations. Called Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), the service will launch first in South Korea, but it’s certainly possible it could be launched in the rest of the world, if successful. There’s certainly a market for it—according to the ZDNet article, watching a 90-minute soccer match over the streaming cellular service in Korea could cost up to $260. Also, like that little nugget of chocolate at the bottom of a Drumstick, is the news that Samsung is planning a ‘game phone’ with 1.2GB of storage and a long-life battery. Interesting. It’d be even more delicious if that 1.2GB were in a hard drive, just because.
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