{"id":1245,"date":"2008-10-30T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T09:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2008-10-30T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T09:29:54","slug":"softbank-mobileto-release-1-seg-tv-tuner-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/softbank-mobileto-release-1-seg-tv-tuner-for-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank Mobile to Release 1-seg TV tuner for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mb.softbank.jp\/mb\/en\/\">Softbank Mobile<\/a> announced today to release 1-seg digital TV tuner device for iPhone in the middle of December.\u00a0\u00a0 The 80-gram device provides the feature of TV over WiFi (converting TV signal received to IP-based data for iPhone) and doubles as a battery extender.\u00a0\u00a0 Three hours continuous TV viewing is available.\u00a0\u00a0 Price is not announced so far.<br \/>\nCompared to other celphone models models in Japanese market, it is said that iPhone has three faults of short battery lifetime, no 1-seg TV feature and no Emoji.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/gmail-supports-emoji-for-japanese-cellphone\/\">As reported previously here on Asiajin<\/a>, Apple unveiled iPhone firmware 2.2 includes a new feature supporting Emoji icons.\u00a0\u00a0 Softbank Mobile CEO, Masayoshi Son confidently said, &#8220;the so called three complainments especially for Japanese iPhone users are perfectly solved, with this brandnew device and next firmware update.&#8221;<br \/>\nAdditionally, Softbank Mobile opens in November its associate company&#8217;s operating WiFi service &#8220;BB Mobile Point&#8221; to iPhone subscribers, which means all the iPhone subscribers can use WiFi connection at 3,500 locations nationwide for a free of charge.<br \/>\nThe device receives 1-seg signal from TV station, convert and re-transmit it to iPhone over WiFi.<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/iphone-with-tuner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1246\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/iphone-with-tuner-400x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe device works as a battery extender when plugged into iPhone 3G&#8217;s connector.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/battery-charging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1247\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/battery-charging-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softbank Mobile announced today to release 1-seg digital TV tuner device for iPhone in the middle of December.\u00a0\u00a0 The 80-gram device provides the feature of TV over WiFi (converting TV signal received to IP-based data for iPhone) and doubles as a battery extender.\u00a0\u00a0 Three hours continuous TV viewing is available.\u00a0\u00a0 Price is not announced so&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/softbank-mobileto-release-1-seg-tv-tuner-for-iphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Softbank Mobile to Release 1-seg TV tuner for iPhone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[44,391,1732,2396,2714,3436],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-1-seg","tag-battery","tag-iphone","tag-mobile-tv","tag-one-seg","tag-softbank","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}