Hands-on with the LG Vu, Samsung Access, and AT&T Mobile Television

May 12 2008

Hands-on with the LG Vu, Samsung Access, and AT&T Mobile Television

Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech

Filed under: Handsets, Features, Multimedia, LG, Samsung, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

These days, voice is the tip of the iceberg. Carriers are always — and we do mean always — looking for crafty ways to boost their average revenue per user, and with everyone and their brother offering an unlimited voice plan at this point, it’s about data and value-add services more than it ever has been before. To that end, Verizon and AT&T have embraced MediaFLO as a way to keep their subscribers entertained on the road to the tune of a few extra bucks per month. AT&T’s service, simply christened Mobile Television, has just launched with a pair of devices from Samsung and LG; naturally, we wanted to know whether the phones were worth the $199 and $299 AT&T’s asking, respectively — but perhaps more importantly, we had to figure out whether the service was worth sucking another $15 a month out of our already-strained wallets.

Gallery: Hands-on with the LG Vu, Samsung Access, and AT&T Mobile Television