open mobile broadcasting phones

Open MobileBroadcasting Phones

François LefebvreCommunications Research Centre, Canada

Broadcast AsiaSingapore, June 19, 2008

... a beer, that is free as in speech !

www.freebeer.org

... if ”openness” makes sense for a beer,

it should also make sense for other things ...

Problem with that phone:

no broadcast applications except:DMB and DAB audio

missing key broadcast applications:Slideshow, broadcast website, TPEG, ...

No open API to access raw bit streams

Why is it like that ?

manufacturer did not have time to implement ?manufacturer did not want to increase royalties burden ?

applications on phones selected by telcos ?broadcast and telco applications are competing?

telco business models different than broadcast (FTA)?unlike PCs, mobile phones live in a vertical ecosystem?

As a consequence:

we can't create new applicationswe can't improve the functionality

we can't create extensionswe can't participate to innovation on top of...some business models get excluded (FTA)

...

So let's just build a FREE/OPEN mobile phone !

www.openmoko.org www.trolltech.com google android

www.openmoko.org

www.trolltech.comgoogle android

www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile

No stack has mobile broadcasting ! ?

Software- receiver control- application decoding- aplication presentation

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clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPjjNHYiRE

this prototype shows that:

a broadcast sw stack can be built relativelyeasily inside the openmoko framework

other missing apps could be added as easily

KEY ISSUE:

identify chipset maker willing to embraceopen source buniness models

Other ISSUES:

Legal (Licenses, patents, copyrights)

Open Standards (degree of openness)

clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITHMJ0XT5U

CRC tools (based on open source)

to help build

NEW MMB APPLICATIONS ...

www.ettus.com

CRC Tube Server Best YouTube clips Automatic Real-time updates Titles overlay Loudness equalisation Video scaling

www.beagleboard.orgomap Zoom

THERE IS HOPE:

some do start to understandthe power of open source models

to sell silicon (TI)

Some Conclusions

CRC has produced tools for collaboration(an architecture of participation?)

We invite MMB chipset makers tothink about open source business models

CRC releases CRC-DABRMS for free

Broadcasting should become a moreorganic ecosystem (Internet model)

Broadcasting in a phone makes sense:”CONVERSATION IS KING”

DEMO

Thank You!

www.crc.ca/mmbmmbTools.crc.caopenmokast.org

francois.lefebvre@crc.ca