Vodafone squeezes internet into TV Vodafone believes the time is right for an internet-on-TV box, undaunted by the fact that everyone else has been trying to do the same thing for decades. Vodafone's new Webbox squeezes the technology into a battery-powered, keyboard-sized device, with an RCA connector and Opera Mini to deliver compressed pages over the mobile …
"Why not just put a LCD into this thing".............RTFA...."The Webbox will start in South Africa, with eyes on India, and retail at around €75 - plus connectivity of course....." If they added an LCD that would make this thing into a lap top. Do u know any good lap tops that sell for €75 ???
Why does everyman and his dog want to be "content" suppliers? If the network people concentrated on getting their network to be the fastest, most reliable and superior network they can charge the providers a premium rate per eyeball of their customers.
There is some really cool content out there, none of it does, or ever will come from the carriers.
Leave it to the professionals guys, just concentrate on getting the zeros and ones to the requesting device as quickly as possible.
Its quite neat actually, add a HDMI option, or wireless HDMI, add wifi and it would be a nice contender to everything else. Ok so that might push the cost up to 100euros which we in the west could pay without problems. Then granny could be online! At the moment no real QUIET solution exists to do this. I have a PS3 with a wireless keyboard its rubbish at rendering websites and doesnt support flash. I dont want a PC as like the PS3 buzzes away with its fans etc. Neat idea.
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