Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/11/bloggers_baffled_by_dvb-h_design/
Sony Ericsson is preparing a handheld web-friendly tablet phone equipped with the ability to pick up DVB-H digital television broadcast if a heap of realistic-looking photos and concept paintings posted on the web. Or is it?
The snaps (http://www.clubsonyericsson.com/en/07/10/2006/sony-ericsson-dvb-h-concept-adriana/?www.reghardware.co.uk) can be found at Spanish fansite Unofficial Club Sony Ericsson, but here's one to whet your appetite:
(http://www.clubsonyericsson.com/en/07/10/2006/sony-ericsson-dvb-h-concept-adriana/?www.reghardware.co.uk)
There are plenty more shots here (http://www.clubsonyericsson.com/en/07/10/2006/sony-ericsson-dvb-h-concept-adriana/?www.reghardware.co.uk).
Codenamed 'Adriana', the device is said to sport a 3.5in, 800 x 600 display. There's 10GB of memory on board - Flash, presumably - and more can be added with MemoryStick Micro cards, the site alleges.
It's also got a.... well, actually, it doesn't. Adriana is a gag. The concept model was designed by UCSE's owner and knocked up for a product design class. Unfortunately, too few bloggers bothered to trace the shots back from site to site to source and are busily writing it up as the real thing. ®
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