Samsung has announced an amazing array of new handheld devices for terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) - that’s Mobile TV to you and me.  In South Korea, a free terrestrial DMB service will begin on 1st December (something which the mobile network operators aren’t too happy about, as they can’t charge for the content), and Samsung are keen to capitalize on this new service, with devices ranging from mobile phone handsets to digital cameras all capable of receving DMB mobile TV broadcasts.

The good news for Europeans? DMB has already been adopted in Europe for multimedia delivery, and trials have already begun, or are in preparation, in  France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the UK.  So expect these devices in Europe throughout 2006 (not sure about the US yet - if anyone has any more news, please feel free to update me).

 

As for the plethora of handsets you see here, I can offer no more than Google’s trusty Korean-English translation service tells me. And that is that Samsung are offering a “ground green onion DMB service” for the hearty price of “20 full large openings”. Er, think I can see why the translation service is still in beta!