India Announces Full-length Movie on Mobile
Filed in: Technology — December 12th, 2004
Airtel, India’s largest private mobile services provider, will play a full-length movie for its customers–not in a theater, but on their handsets.
The Hindi film “Rok Sako To Rok Lo” (”Stop Me If You Can”) can be viewed by Airtel subscribers in 10 Indian cities, including Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, using their EDGE-enabled handsets on Thursday, a day before the campus caper is released in theaters. EDGE, or Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution, is a third-generation cellular technology that delivers broadband-like data speeds to mobile devices.
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Thought:
Malaysia also has EDGE but limited to a few areas only. I am wondering if the mobile phone battery enough power to play a full length movie? If it charge by kilobytes downloaded, then it is expensive, consider that you are watching from a small screen…
