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...transmitted, but media and mobile companies do. Every bit of programming that travels over a broadcast network rather than a mobile network is lost revenue for the operators. In December, six of Korea's biggest networks will start broadcasting free of charge to users with mobile devices made by Samsung, LG and others, bypassing mobile networks completely. Mobile phones and television companies "are coming together and creating lots of questions like, 'Who owns the customer?'" says Richard Sharp, vice president of multimedia at Nokia. As with many nascent technologies, though, there are some hurdles to overcome before mobile TV goes...
...carrying newly assembled TVs to their final quality checks churns behind him, Take emphasizes that Aquos is not just Sharp's latest hit product. It is the core of a strategic shift that has transformed the company from a perennial also-ran to Asian rivals like Sony, Matsushita and Samsung into the world's hottest electronics company. "Everybody from 1 to 100 uses a TV, many of them for three to five hours a day," he says, clearly delighted by the thought of all of us plopped in front of so many idiot boxes, each of them potentially bearing...
Even in his core business of manufacturing LCDs, Machida is playing to Sharp's strengths and avoiding margin-killing commodity products. Taking on Goliaths like LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics across every LCD product line would be foolish, he says. They're dominant, for example, in mass-market LCD panels used in smaller, cheaper TVs and in laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems and handheld game players like Sony's PSP and Nintendo...
...open in 2006. But Sharp's competitors are also building furiously. In a joint venture, LG Electronics and Royal Philips Electronics are spending $5.1 billion to create the world's largest plant for LCDs. Sony, whose lack of flat-screen capacity has been a huge disadvantage, is teaming with Samsung in a $2 billion LCD venture. Hitachi, Toshiba and Matsushita have similarly joined forces. In the U.S., computer maker Dell is getting into the flat-panel game...
...phones use Bluetooth to make an IP connection, which limits the range in which supercheap calls can be made. But things should get more interesting in 2006, when BT and other providers add hybrid wi-fi/cellular phones. At least four of the largest mobile-handset vendors - Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG - are known to be preparing such devices, which will bring wi-fi phoning more into the mainstream. "2006 will be a big year for [mobile] wi-fi," predicts Nokia senior vice president Ilkka Raiskinen, noting that wi-fi will become a standard feature in Nokia's multimedia...