Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Interesting New Cell Phone Technology: Push-To-View

By Alice Hill
Walkie talkies are soooooo last century, don't you think? Even though they enjoyed a brief comeback in push-to-talk cell phones from Nextel and others, and even though pushing to talk even made it on the primetime TV show The Apprentice, cell phone carriers are always looking for the next big thing to keep you racking up even more talk time. Enter the newest push on the block: an interesting concept called Push-to-View or PTV as it is already abbreviated.

The catch of course is that you need to have a costly 3G handset and a decent signal, and a person on the other end with a similar setup, but I have to say that pushing to view someone live is a pretty cool feature, and it passes my age-old porn test of a technology's viability: If you can make money selling a porn service via the technology (phone sex, internet porn, adult DVDs, etc, etc.) then you have a hit on your hands. At any rate, this is the innovative direction cell phones should be moving in, instead of trying to show grainy TV shows on a one-inch screen.

I have to say I have always been down on 3G because it had no killer app, but maybe PTV is the breakthrough application this platform has been waiting for.

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