TV on your phone new service from Sprint Pcs
Until now Sprint subscribers were able to watch steaming videos at 1 to 2 frames per second (fps) with offer called MobiTV, but on August 13, 2000 Sprint announced the launching of a new service called Sprint PCS VisionSM Multimedia Services. It allows customers to watch video and audio content at 15 fps which is very good compared to the 20 fps which is the regular TV quality. With this service Sprint is lunching the MM-A700 by Samsung, which will be available on Tuesday at a retail price of $399.99 or $249.99 after rebate with two-year agreement. The handset is high-end CDMA phone and features dual 262k TFT displays, 1 megapixel camera, video recording/streaming, 1xRTT data, GPS location, polyphonic ring tones, digital TTY, speaker independent voice dialing and voice recording.
With this phone consumers will be able to access over 600 new streaming video and audio clips every day, covering the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment.
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