Interesting: MobiTV App For Android Is Prohibited From Working Over Wi-Fi (On Some Phones)
This is a little quirk of mobile deal-making I wasn’t aware of. Gadgetwise noticed that on the AT&T Captivate (which I recently reviewed ), launching the included MobiTV app while connected to a Wi-Fi network prompts you to disconnect , and then warns you in all caps “THIS PRODUCT WILL USE A LARGE AMOUNT OF DATA AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL DATA CHARGES.” Sure, and usually that’s why they ask you to connect to your Wi-Fi: so it doesn’t burden the network and/or use up all your data (at which point you inevitably come crying to them). So why does this one tell you to shut it down? It turns out that the app maker, the service provider, and probably the handset maker all put their heads together and decided that their included TV streaming app would be network data only — in hopes that people would upgrade their data plan to accommodate all that bandwidth they’re using.
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