iphone mythtv frontend
check it out! chris carey just released a mythtv frontend for the iphone. not only can you stream your mythtv collection to your iphone, but you can also control your mythtv box from your iphone![here]
i’ve seen a few stories this week about google trying to aquire the 700mhz wireless spectrum. [ GigaOM ] [ techcrunch ] if you’re not familiar with it, the 700mhz spectrum currently is analog tv and since the us is switching to digital tv the 700mhz specturm is up for grabs. google has made the required minimum bid of $4.6 BILLION to try to aquire it. i wonder what happened with google buying as much dark fiber as they could. dark fiber is the left over/ upgrade fiber that already exists but isn’t currently utilized.
as much as i like my tmobile wing and i tollerate windows mobile 6 that runs on it. and as much as i’d love to run a trolltech qtopia green phone (it’s linux!), nothing really gets my attention like a google based mobile device, aka the google phone [ engadget ]. yeah yeah yeah the interface on the iphone is neat. it roates to landscape when you turn the phone. i would expect nothing less from apple honestly, but how is the rf on the iphone?
with as far as the 700 mhz spectrum penetrates (thing about the rabbit ears on your tv. that signal goes anywhere) along with normal gsm spectrums (800, 950, 1800, 1900) a google phone that would use not only the 700mhz but also carrier specific spectrums would be one powerful device. if google aquires the specturm they’re talking about openning up a new channel of communication of billions, not just those on regular cellular, wireless, or data networks. [ official google blog ] of course if google aquired that spectrum, it doesn’t mean it would be limited to cellphones. it could also be a wi-max type network. open network, with open services, with open applications, and open devices. ( that’s a lot of ‘open’, their words not mine )
being able to connect to a common network from any device and having the same applications across multiple devices means always being connected and having the same user experience across the board. it also means that google will be able to serve up ever more relevant google ad words ads no matter where we are. hopefully someone invents an adblock extension for the google phone. *grin*
oh, and i’m gonna miss having to use rabbit ears to get television signals, now you’ll need a special htdv antenna in order to pick up any over the air/free channels. then again with tivo or a mythtv box you convert digital signal to analog to play on a tv. i really want to see what google has accomplished in 10 more years. i really do expect some sort of google net which can be access from any device with an unlimited resource of data. drool.