HMD, Lava to launch feature phones with direct-to-mobile technology, Developed in collaboration with Tejas Networks and powered by Saankhya's chipset, these phones can stream content without internet
HMD, Lava to launch feature phones with direct-to-mobile technology
With D2M technology [...] the device can directly receive broadcast signals and stream multimedia content without requiring an active internet connection.
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"so it's like TV, but on a much smaller screen, low resolution, with crappy speakers, a short battery life, all the advertisements of TV..."
"I know, it's so revolutionary!"
So they.just reinvented the DVB-T tuner.
Edit: I looked it up and it's literally just that. The fact they're shoving it into feature phones is interesting.
Techbros reinventing older tech without realizing it
They didn't reinvent it, they just took a tv box chip and shoved it into a phone.
Edit: the soc that they are using is worse than the feature phone soc in my old Nokia from 2008. What the actual fuck.
Edit: the soc that they are using is worse than the feature phone soc in my old Nokia from 2008. What the actual fuck.
Oh god. They invented a TV with a phone built in.