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UK: review of watching FreeView TV and listening DAB radio in Windows Mobile phone GSmart t600 May 20, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. If you are not located in UK, then feel free to skip this article! 
As you can see on the photo above, we have been testing reception of mobile TV in regular (not mobile version like DVB-H) broadcasting standards of DVB-T known in UK as "FreeView" (digital terrestrial, not satellite, TV) and DAB (digital radio - very popular in UK, successor to FM radio). The location of testing was particularly well chosen: it was inside of the Terminal 5 of Heathrow airport, i.e. inside an airport where many people are waiting for flights so it was a good use case showing where watching mobile TV would be interesting for potential customers. Terminal 5 is the most modern airport building in UK and it is constructed out of glass and steel yet the reception of TV was possible with GSmart t600, that has reception not worse than regular DVB-T receivers and TV sets with "built-in FreeView". Since GSmart t600 has a beautiful VGA display of high resolution 640x480 pixels, even watching TV channels with a lot of textual information is not a problem and one can see each and every detail of the broadcast clearly (no pixelation!): 
When scanning for new channels one must set "UK" configuration and then both TV and radio channels are catched: 
Practically all available FreeView and DAB radio chanels can be received. Sometimes one must turn the phone around to find the position at which reception is optimal/possible but generally comfortable high quality watching is possible. FreeView, as the name indicates, is a free digital television directed at regular users, who would like to receive mainstream TV channels (BBC1-4, ITV1-4, E4, Channel 5, Five and its variants, etc). Obviously British pay-TV like Sky TV and Virgin Media TV are available only through satellite and cable respectively but the TV in the air directed at regular TV set owners can be received also with the GSmart t600 phone. Conclusion: if you live in UK then GSmart t600 phone may be of interest to you as it is the only mobile phone that can bring to you full digital TV (and digital DAB radio as bonus) to your pocket! See also our review of GSmart t600 from GIGABYTE Communications.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 5 Comments ]
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