LG adds ‘Tweet-TV’ enabled Android phone to its list of Mobile DTV prototypes

Whenever mobile digital television broadcasts finally take off LG will be ready and it’s latest concept design — following the autostereoscopic 3D screen shown at CES — is the Tweet-TV pictured above. At the National Association of Broadcasters show this week it’s demonstrating the prototype Android phone with a Harris MDTV antenna that also pulls in relevant tweets and displays them over the broadcast being watched. Whether or not a dose of social networking will help MDTV succeed where others have failed remains to be seen but first we’ll see if it succeeds in reaching 40% of the US population later this year . The press release and a bigger picture follow after the break. Continue reading LG adds ‘Tweet-TV’ enabled Android phone to its list of Mobile DTV prototypes LG adds ‘Tweet-TV’ enabled Android phone to its list of Mobile DTV prototypes originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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