In Barcelona, Tech Digest has had a look at Spice's Movie Phone, which is expected to go on sale in India this summer, with photos. Stuart Dredge says:The phone has a 2.8-inch screen, and its headphone jack doubles as a TV-Out port for connecting to a big-screen TV. But it's that optical drive that makes it stand out - you slot the tiny discs into a tray that pops out from the back of the phone - much like loading UMDs into a PSP.You can fit a two-and-a-half hour film onto one of the discs - and a bit more if the compression is tweaked. The 40 films that'll be available at launch are mainly Bollywood movies, and Spice told me they're readying 1,000 more through deals with studios. The films will be sold in mini DVD-like cases for the equivalent of $5.The phone uses the Vmedia disc format (FAQ) with drives developed and manufactured by Panasonic Communications in Japan. The same drives are expected to appear in other phones and small devices, including home players. Longcheer Technology is doing a handset for sale in China. Note: dual layer 2GB discs and recordable drives are on the way.Sure, you can put a movie on an SD card. However, small optical discs can ultimately be manufactured in large volumes for a few pence/cents each.I've pasted a bit of the official press release below:
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