CHAPTER 15

Operating Systems and Software for Mobile TV and Multimedia Phones

Supporting Windows is like buying a puppy. The dog only cost $100, but we spent another $500 cleaning the carpet.

Marc Dodge, “Reality Check,” Open Computing, December 1994 http://www.generalconcepts.com/jms/quotes.html

When MobiTV won the Global Mobile Awards 2009 for the Mobile TV category, the judges’ comments included: “A great service with a simple user interface available on an impressive range of handsets — this is likely to encourage greater uptake of mobile TV services.” This single sentence captures the ingredients for the success of mobile TV. But how can such a “simple user interface” be implemented on an “impressive range of handsets” ? The solution, ...

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