Orange brings mickey mouse to mobile tv
Orange has made a digital TV content deal with Disney-ABC International Television, which will allow Orange subscribers to watch Disney movies on Orange’s forthcoming digital TV service ipTV.
Under the multi-year video on-demand deal for digital TV and PC, Orange will be able to offer for rental video on demand movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, such as Déjà Vu, Wild Hogs, and Venus.
Tim Pearson, director of ipTV Orange, said: ‘The Disney-ABC International Television deal is the first of a number of content deals we’re announcing and demonstrates we’re gearing up for our launch of digital TV later this year. We intend to offer our customers a great range of the best movies on demand for which this agreement with Disney is a great step.’
Coming Soon: Sony Ericsson W960i
The sleek W960i Walkman® phone impresses with its touch display and 8GB memory. You can have all the music you want - literally at your fingertips.
Two major improvements with the W960i over the previous model are the inclusion of a 3.2 megapixel camera and WiFi support - the lack of a camera on the older model was an oddity due to the fact that it too was based on another Sony Ericsson smartphone, this time the M600i.
One thing to notice about the W960i is the unusually uncluttered design - this is because the W960i uses a large 2.6″ 240×320 pixel resolution touchscreen plus a jog dial. The W960i’s underlying operating system is Symbian with the UIQ interface on top, which means that there are a wide variety of applications available, possibly also including corporate push email solutions. This makes the W960i an unusually powerful member of the Walkman family. Another major change is that the W960i comes with a whopping 8GB of memory, but this isn’t expandable - the W960i doesn’t support any type of memory card expansion.
8GB - room for musical variation
Mellow pop? Hard rock? Reggae, hip hop, jazz? With the W960i, there’s room for it all - you can store up to 8000 songs (eAAC+ format) in your phone.
The perfect touch
The Walkman® touch player let you manage your music the easy way. Enjoy album art on the large phone display and use your fingers to play the song you want.
TV quality on your phone screen
View videos in TV quality on the W960i display. Or connect to your PC, synchronize and enjoy podcasts on your phone. All the software you need - and a stereo headset - is included in phone kit.
Other features include stereo Bluetooth, a built-in FM radio, web browser, email client and RSS reader. On top of that there are document viewers and editors, personal information management functions, email synchronisation, handwriting recognition and a whole host of other goodies that mean that the W960i should be equally useful for business users- (we can see that this will be a rival to the popular BlackBerry Pearl in this respect.
Sony Ericsson anticipate that the W960i should be available in Q2 2007.
