Verizon is due to launch its MediaFLO TV broadcast service, enabling you to watch live TV — not streaming video, but live broadcasts, like on an actual TV — on a cell phone. MediaFLO is planned a debut in the next couple of months to about half of Verizon's markets. Transmitted in a six-MHz slice of the 700-MHz bandwidth (old UHF channel 55), MediaFLO can broadcast up to 20 channels to a phone.
To watch TV, you'll need a MediaFLO phone like the new LG VX-9400 shown, which has a 2.2-inch screen that swivels perpendicular (called a T-bar) for widescreen TV viewing, revealing the keypad beneath. Multitaskers can also text or chat while watching TV. Aside from TV, the 4.04 x 1.93 x 0.73-inch, 4.06-oz. VX-9400 is an EV-DO VCast music phone with a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player with stereo Bluetooth, and a microSD card slot. — Stewart Wolpin
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