Mobile Theatres

A Mobile theatre is one of the latest developments inour phones. To make mobile theater possible changes
the mobile industry. Before knowing about mobileshould be made in both the consumers and the
theatres let us see about the evolution of mobiles andservice providers side. Service providers are now
telecommunication industry which led to theseenhancing their services to adopt 3G standards so
developments.that they can provide broader spectrum of services.
In the 1990's, people started using mobile phones toThere are many issues which need to be identified
communicate with their friends, relations, colleagues,and resolved to provide these complex services.
etc. either through voice or text. This generation ofSome of them are issues like consumer specific and
mobile services is called first generation standard.some are service provider specific.
Later, when the first generation mobile servicesThe cost of mobile phones are decreasing very rapidly
evolved into second generation mobile services therebut still 3G mobile's cost is too high compared to other
were some dimensional changes in the mobile world.ordinary phones. And another major issue in using the
Even then people didn't expect some tremendous3G mobiles is about the battery life. 3G mobiles need a
features from their small handheld machines. But withvery good battery power because they are used for
the arrival of GPRS the second generation mobiletransferring enormous amount of data to and from
standards evolved into 2.5G standard which broughtlong distance internet servers. These are some of the
the mobile and telecommunication industry one stepissues in the consumer side. Cost of getting licenses
further. This is one of the most important turning pointsfor providing 3G standard services is high. Lack of
in the mobile and telecommunication industry. After thatsupport for financially troubled operators is another
many researches are being carried out around theseissue faced by the service providers.
ideas.Still the growth and deployment of 3G standard
People started to know about the potentials of theirservices and manufacturing of 3G compatible mobiles
handheld machines gradually. The views of cell phonesis increasing rapidly. Mobile theaters make it possible to
have changed. It is no longer a simple basicview movies in your mobile. The high buffering
communication device which can aid only for voicecapacity offered by the 3G standard makes it easy to
and text based communications with other cell phonesview movies, videos in our mobile phones. For using
but much more than that. After more researches theythis kind of facility consumers should use 3G
came up with even higher data rate standard which iscompatible mobile phones and their service provider
EDGE. This standard was termed as 2.75G.By latemust provide 3G enabled services. Service providers
1990's International Telecommunications Union definedshould tie up with content providers for providing these
the 3G standard which facilitates higher data rates forkinds of services to their customers. Also several
mobiles to increase the potentials of the mobile phonesmobile applications are being built by the software
even more. This 3G specification makes it possible todevelopers for playing videos and movies in different
use more complex applications in our mobile phones.formats in our mobile. These applications should be light
One of this is the mobile theater. 3G standard providesweighted, more efficient and should avoid unnecessary
various services like video conferencing, video onfacilities so as to make it execute fast in our small
demand, mobile TV etc.mobile phones. Researchers are also working in
How is mobile theater possible? Due to the enhanceddesigning new light weight protocols for streaming
data transfer rates and higher buffering capabilities invideos to mobile phones to use it as mobile theaters.