With the Nokia N92 and DVB-H mobile TV still not really established in most of the world, I was interested to see Marek Pawlowski's blogged review of his data-based 'Mobile TV' experience on a S60 smartphone. The jury's still out on the best way to provide TV on a smartphone, but suffice it to say that Marek was seriously underwhelmed by his trial.
Read on in the full article.
Most of the complaints in the article are to do with the implementation of mobile TV, rather than the idea itself.
Until there's mobile TV with a really good easy to use interface, a reasonable price and a reliable connection, we just don't know how popular it will be.
My guess is that mobile TV will creep onto our phones without us even noticing it, through models that are compatible with services such as YouTube. Once you can do streaming video, you can do television channels and programmes.