HMD, Lava to Launch Direct-to-Cell Telephones in Partnership With Tejas Networks, FreeStream

HMD introduced on Monday that it’ll launch Direct-to-Cell (D2M) telephones in collaboration with FreeStream Applied sciences and different D2M companions. The announcement was made forward of the upcoming World Audio Visible & Leisure Summit (WAVES) 2025, which can start on Could 1. Lava Worldwide, an Indian OEM, can be set to introduce D2M function telephones within the nation. Some key options of the Lava handset have been teased by the corporate. The sphere trials of the D2M expertise will happen in India quickly.

HMD, Lava to Work With FreeStream, Sinclair, and Tejas Networks

HMD, in collaboration with FreeStream Applied sciences, Tejas Networks, and Sinclair, will unveil Direct-to-Cell (D2M) telephones in India throughout WAVES 2025, which can be held on the Jio World Centre, Mumbai, the corporate stated in a press launch on Monday. 

Lava stated that its in-house R&D group and Tejas Networks have developed a function cellphone that runs on the MediaTek MT6261 SoC with an built-in SL3000 chip by Saankhya. It’ll include a UHF antenna for TV reception, GSM for voice calls, a 2.8-inch QVGA show and a 2,200mAh battery.

D2M is claimed to be a “next-generation broadcasting expertise” which delivers OTT in addition to dwell TV, video, audio, and textual content messages on to cell phones, with out Wi-Fi or web connectivity. The collaboration is claimed to assist the ‘Make in India’ and ‘Design in India’ initiatives within the nation. Giant-scale subject trials of the expertise as scheduled to start quickly.

HMD additionally stated that the upcoming units can be low-cost function telephones, smartphones, and tablets which are powered by Tejas Networks. The expertise is claimed to have been extensively examined in “dwell networks by Prasar Bharati in collaboration with IIT Kanpur and Tejas Networks.”

Tejas Networks Govt Vice President Parag Naik stated that the upcoming HMD D2M telephones will use Saankhya Labs’ SL-3000 chipset and can be geared up with a “Core Community platform for focused adverts, CDN offload, academic content material, emergency alerts, and extra.”

Sinclair Inc., an American telecommunications agency, stated that the telephones will use ATSC 3.0 expertise, which is touted to be the next-generation digital terrestrial tv broadcast normal. The corporate is claimed to be engaged on “the following model, Broadcast to Every thing (B2X) expertise,” with a deal with future 6G wants.