open mobile broadcasting phones
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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
