LG Electronics Unveils DMB-Receiving Phone

LG Electronics has shown off the worlds first terrestrial digital multimedia broadcast-receiving mobile phone

The DMB mobile phone adopts the DMB-receiving System-on-Chip (SoC) that the company developed last month. The chip enables the user to watch terrestrial broadcasts and at the same time talk on the phone.

LG Electronics has technologically brought the usual home TV antenna function aimed at receiving VHF broadband DMB into the small phone. The handset also adopts DSP (Digital Signal Processor)-based SoC (System-on-Chip), mobile phone-fit low power consumption and design technologies for making the device small.

The terrestrial DMB phone is profoundly significant in that it has remarkably resolved problems surrounding the bulky terminal size and power consumption. The previous terrestrial DMB terminals had no mobile phone functions, and they took the form of bulky-sized terminal-only or PDAs.

The state-of-the-art mobile phone resolves bulky size and power consumption, enables the watching of terrestrial multimedia feature broadcasts, and is equipped with a mega-pixel camera and MP3.