Samsung Ultra Video Phone: F500 Plays DiVx

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Samsung rolled out its Ultra phones, and here's the F500, the video specialist of the line that's the first cellphone that can play back DivX movies. On its 2.4-inch screen, it can handle all the usual suspects, too, such as MPEG-4, H.264, WMV and AVI, storing it all on 400MB of internal memory or up to 2GB on a microSD card. It's also packing a 2-megapixel camera. What an innovative idea to make a swivel base that doubles as a stand, letting you set it on an airplane tray table and view it without having to hold it in your hands all the time. But what's with that big honking antenna? Seems like that could have been hidden away.
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Samsung Ultra Video Phone: F500 Plays DiVx - Gizmodo
 
The antenna is not for the mobile use. I think samsung is again trying for mobile TV concept with their phone. And thats why that antenna. And its completely hidden when not needed.
 
superczar said:
:bleh:...fibbing losers....all symbian phones can play DivX movies!
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Maybe it's like the Zen vision ... you don't have to resize or re-encode the divx/xvid videos to play on the mobile .
 
^^which means the processor needs to do it real time, thereby requiring a faster procesor and a shard drop in the battery runtime...

Unlikely IMHO, and even if that works, it's still a practical choice to resize and reencode to lower bit rates to reduce processor usage and thus cutting down on the btttery drain
 
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