Eyes on video at mobile confab

February 12, 2008 Cell phone makers at the Mobile World Congress confab here advanced their quest to grab entertainment dollars as they introduced new handsets Monday geared for use as music, video, TV and gaming devices. Youngcho Chi, senior vp marketing at Samsung, hailed it as "ideal for watching movies as never before experienced on mobile devices." Niklas Savander, executive vp software and services, lauded it not only for its 2.8-inch screen size but also for having enough storage capacity to hold "more video than most of us watch in a month."

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