People will soon be able to see photos sent from friends’ cellphones on their TV screen, a telecoms operator said on Monday.
The service is to be launched by Taiwan Mobile Co, the nation’s second-largest telecoms service provider, sometime in February, the firm said.
The digital convergence service will allow users to use one single account to access photos, videos and songs via different Internet-connected devices, such as TV sets, computers, tablet computers and mobile phones, the company said in a statement.
“For example, a married couple in Taipei can send photos of their children to a cloud photo album via a cellphone while they are on a family trip,” the company said, referring to photos stored on a server as opposed to a hard drive.
“Their parents in Kaohsiung will receive an alert on the TV screen and can immediately see the photos of their grandchildren by using the remote control,” it added.
Taiwan Mobile said it would be the first company in the nation to offer this “four-screen” service and one of the pioneers in Asia. The initiative is the result of two years of effort and a heavy investment of resources, Taiwan Mobile president Harvey Chang (張孝威) said.
Taiwan Mobile hopes to draw between 50,000 and 100,000 users to the new service next year.
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