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One-Segment Mobile Phone from Hitachi

Written by: Sven Kilian on February 5, 2006 at 9:11 pm | In Technology & Gadget Trends |

One-segment broadcasting is a service that allows watching a segment of terrestrial digital broadcasting program from mobile phones etc. It will start from April 1. Hitachi presents a mobile phone for one-segment broadcasting called "W41H" for the mobile phone provider au. It carries a 2.7 inch LCD display that can be turned out side and folded. This is called "view style" and when it is set on the charging stander, the one-segment TV tuner starts automatically. You can watch for about 3 hours 45 minutes. Maximum recording time is about 30 minutes. With the music function, services from au like "au LISTEN MOBILE SERVICE (LISMO) ", "au Music Player", and "au Music Port" can be used. Play lists can be attached to mail and sent. With a mini SD card, music can be saved. SD-Audio form music files can also be played. It carries 7 kinds of equalizer, stereo ear phone and 2 kinds of equalizer for stereo speaker. Of course it also has a digital camera function (2.07 mega pixel). The size is 4x 53x 27 inch, and the weight is 5.2 oz. Open price.

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