Content Pumped To Your Cellular Phone

Mobile phones with Ultra high speed InternetThe promise of watching DVD videos on your
connection promises a lot, are we there yet?Windows Smart phone
Imagine flipping open your mobile phone and beingAlready many Japanese commuters are watching
able to check the balance on your bank account,video on their mobiles while commuting long
finding the latest scores of your favorite sportsdistances from their homes to their work on the
team, if you're on a diet find out what your dailysubway. Well if you own a Windows Smart
calorie intake is, find out that your tofu lasagna isphone, you can convert a new DVD movie on
only a 600 calorie lunch, download the hippestyour computer to watch it on your Windows
ringtone, find out which space station is about tomobile device. No matter how old you are, folks
fly over your home city, and finally find a greatof every generation enjoy movies of all kinds. I
restaurant that you and a friend can dine at.don't know about you, but I am a Film Festival
The chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman says,junkie. When the Vancouver film festival come in
"Window into the possibilities of what mightto town, I purchase the Visa Gold Express ticket
happen when high-speed broadband services areallowing me to sneak into a movie 5 minutes
widely adopted in other places too". More andbefore the curtains roll. There are 5-10 seats
more cellular customers will want to be listening toreserved in every theater for Visa Gold express
streaming music on their cellular phone. Anpass holders. The most popular and well received
innovative company called Amp'D mobile wirelessfilm Festival movies are later turned to DVDs and
has leased bundles of services from Verizonthat is what I look forward to watching. A very
wireless. In no time soon, the 18-year-old to 35popular software called Pocket DVD studio 3.5
year old market will be able to bundle what mediaallows you to convert any DVD movie you watch
they would want on their cellular phones beforeat home to the following
it's shipped to their home. They will be able toformats:wmv,avi,mpg,mpeg,pm,rmvb,tivo2go.
select version of their favorite sitcom, a new ringWhat's nice is that you won't have to spend an
tone, games they would like play on their Amp'dentire afternoon converting only one movie. Diane
mobile phone.Dumas, an editor at Pocket PC took five hours to
A country where three quarters of the populationconvert a DVD movie to Windows media video
owns cellular phones is Korea. Back in the 60s,format. However, using the pocket DVD studio
there was one television for every 300 people in3.5, she was able to convert her DVD movie in
that country. Look how far technology hasless than one hour.
influenced Koreans. In fact, if you are a KoreanWhat happens after you convert it ?
couple looking for an apartment, a sign will display1. Save the DVD you converted either on a
on the bottom of the for rent sign showing thestorage card or your desktop hard drive
Internet connection speed for that particular2. Synchronize the converted DVD to your
apartment block. This is very important for manyWindows mobile device using ActiveSync
young Korean couples and can be a deciding3. Now sit back at your favorite WiFi hotspot,
factor whether or not they rent that particularlazyboy chair or park and watch your DVD movie
apartment.on your smart phone
New cellular technology is so close, but when youAnother exciting development that's happening in
get there expect to paySpain right now is a service called Sim pay. What
The Ministry of information and communication oris Sim pay?
MIC in Korea says that people will be able a surfThis service already exist in Spain and has the
the Internet while they're traveling in their vehicleability to use your cellular phone to make mobile
at 60 kph. This service is called WiBro. MIC haspayments easier. The goal of Sim pay which is
leased the following three Korean telecomalso a nonprofit organization is to have the entire
companies: SK telecom,KT and Hanaro to be ablenetwork of European cellular users, all 70 million of
to offer high-speed wireless Internet access.them be able to select on their cellular phone,
You're probably asking what does this have to do"buying with Sim pay". An equivalent Sim Pay
with North Americans? There will come a timeservice can be adapted to United States. Pay pal
where your cellular phone will be able to read thenow has more than 60 million account holders in
radiofrequency identification tags, the bar codethe world. Perhaps pay pal will look at this model
that you see on every single item in a groceryand take note.
store. Imagine having a MIC cellular phone that willWhat is the real-life application of Sim pay?
be able to read the expiry date of: milk, cheese,If you travel frequently to Seoul, the capital of
yogurt, fresh meats, baked goods, and seafoodKorea, you may stumble upon a experimental
at your local grocery store. Imagine your MICcafé where you can order an Asian
cellular phone being able to pick up a signal fromversion of cappuccino and be able to pay for it
an advertisement which would ask you towith your cell phone. In fact you may not even
download a preview of a brand new movie. Youhave to interact with a human being, you simply
never thought that your cellular phone could do soorder your to cappuccinos on your cellular phone
many things did you? The predicted success ofscreen and t hen pay electronically and receive
this wireless Internet service is overwhelming.your receipt of electronically as well. But how
WiBro is estimating that there will be over 9 milliondoes the cappuccino taste prepared by a Korean
new subscribers between now and 2011.robot?