Qualcomm’s FLO PTV device in the flesh

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One of our oh-so-trusty ninjas hit us up last night with the above photo. It’s the much-rumored Qualcomm FLO TV personal TV unit. While Qualcomm is mostly known for making processors for mobile devices, it looks like they will be branching outside of their normal work and possibly manufacturing hardware, at least based on what we’ve been hearing about the FLO PTV product. FLO TV is available currently on AT&T and Verizon network handsets (depending on model) and uses a specific frequency separate of cellular signals to broadcast live TV to phones and devices. What the PTV product would do, is work as a standalone device which we’re hearing would also double as a portable media player of some kind. Previous rumors have pegged the device as having a capacitive touch screen, 4GB of built-in storage space and stereo speakers. Those specs fit in line with what we’ve been told. Sorry the picture isn’t a little bigger, but hey, it’s better than some sketches, right?

10 Comments
  • http://www.v2lab.com/theory Mr. Hi-Definition

    Nice, I had no idea Qualcomm would branch out to make actually hardware. This is a pleasant surprise.

  • http://www.v2lab.com/theory Mr. Hi-Definition

    I wonder how large the screen is…

  • Jouten

    When I first glanced at the headline I thought it said, “FLOP TV”. LOL!

  • Smeggers

    Jouten, I thought exactly the same thing. LOL! You’d think marketing folks would avoid the word “flop” in a product name…

  • Jay N95 Owner!

    Why MediaFLO or DTV can’T just be built into laptops & netbooks I haven’t a clue!!!

  • Ethan

    i agree, but i think there testing the waters, its all about $$$$$$

  • Dennis

    If you go to your nearest VERIZON store and inquire about “Flo-TV” you will just get a blank stare. NONE of the floor models in my local central New Jersey stores have the flo-tv feature built in. I asked about this because I have the older LG model with Flo-Tv and love it to check fox news and the stock market. I am pretty sure Verizon is phasing out flo-tv for their own profit model of VCast-Mobil TV !!! So I called Quallicom about this and requested that they consider a stand alone TV similar to XM and Serious Satellite radio. You really wouldn’t want a bigger screen than 4 or 5 inches so you can keep this unit in your pocket. The quality on my phone is excellent, I hope this is the same.

  • random dork

    has anyone considered this might be a technology demo. remember the public humiliation over the snapdragon demo systems looking like a frankenputer. bad business mojo to be humiliated that way. i dont see any logical reason for qualcomm to go into virtual competition with its vendors, also bad mojo. likely this is a “this is what you can do with our stuff” demo like car show cars(tech experiments not intended for production), trade show demo eyecandy. just my Occam’s razor view on this. but with big companies you never know,Sony likes to have four departments one shooting the foot, one putting on shoes, one cutting the foot off, and another one adding headlights and a coffee maker.

  • johnny

    I think this is a smashing idea, it is sad because only some phones have the tv, wish their were more phones with the tv

  • http://pkhostingsolutions.com Anonymous

    Hey guys, I haven’t heard much about this product, but you will be excited to know that My mother works for Qcomm and will be picking up my device for “beta testing” tomorrow!!!!

    I will keep everyone posted on whatever details I am alloud to share…

    pkhosting@gmail.com for any questions…

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