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Microtune's New Mobile MicroTuner - Enables TV on Handheld Devices

Filed under category: Wireless Phones

In case you haven't heard, Mobile TV is the next phase to wireless "everything." Keeping "in tune" with this cutting edge technology, Microtune, Inc. has introduced a new family of high-performance, ultra low-power, multi-band tuners targeted for mobile handhelds, including cell phones, PDAs and other multimedia convergence devices. When integrated into portable handheld devices, the MT2260 tuner, the first member of the new Mobile MicroTuner family, permits users to watch multi-channel broadcast TV with full-motion digital pictures and CD-quality sound. As a strategic advantage, its multi-band capability permits manufacturers to develop handset designs for global markets without the added expense and duplication of effort to design market-specific devices.

"Microtune is the only company to have shipped more than 15 million silicon TV tuners, and the rapidly emerging market for TV services delivered to mobile devices will not wait a long time for development of a reliable DVB-H receiver," said Gerry Kaufhold, Principal Analyst with In-Stat/MDR. "We expect that the World Cup Soccer matches in 2006 will set-up the need for rapid deployment of new video services for Europe, and Crown Castle and Qualcomm appear to be 'raring to get started' in North America. Mobile video services may roll out sooner than anyone expects."

> Source: Microtune
> Estimated price: $5 per unit if you get 10,000
> Date released/expected: N/A

Posted on June 3, 2005 08:46 PM

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