Vodafone live!cast

Vodafone live!cast was a mobile phone service that allowed users to receive headlines and other information on their phone's home screen. The service was available on certain Vodafone phones, such as the Panasonic VS3 and the Sagem myV-76.

Vodafone live!cast automatically delivers headlines in the form of a ticker to your mobile phone home display. With just one click, the respective message can be opened and read in a taller window. If you want to read the complete article on the headline, you can then access the articles on the Vodafone live! portal.

Vodafone live!cast was a popular service, and it was one of the first of its kind. However, the service was discontinued soon, as Vodafone shifted its focus to other mobile services.

Despite its discontinuation, Vodafone live!cast was a significant service in the history of mobile technology. It was one of the first services to offer users a way to receive real-time news and information on their mobile phones. Vodafone live!cast helped to pave the way for the development of more advanced mobile services, such as push notifications and live streaming.

How Vodafone live!cast worked

Vodafone live!cast worked by pushing cell-broadcast1 messages to users' mobile phones in the form of a ticker. The ticker was a small bar that appeared at the bottom of the phone's screen. The ticker would display headlines and other information, such as weather updates and sports scores.

Users could click on the ticker to open a message and read it in more detail. They could also subscribe to different channels, such as news, sports, and weather. This allowed users to customize the content that they received on their phones.

The cell-broadcast messages carried an XHTML-Mobile snippet with rich text and an inline SVG image. The Vodafone live!cast project helped push the mobile browsers into compatibility with W3C's SVG-Tiny and Compound Document Format (CDF).

What kind of content was available?

Vodafone live!cast offered a variety of content, including:

  • News headlines

  • Weather updates

  • Sports scores

  • Entertainment news

  • Financial news

  • Business news

  • Technology news

Users could subscribe to any of these channels, and they would receive updates whenever new content was available.

Short info: * Get business information and the latest top news * Information about politics, sports, and world affairs * free until 2006-03-31 * the connection to the Vodafone live! portal is subject to charges depending on the subscribed tariff

Service in detail Vodafone live!cast is pre-activated on every live!cast mobile phone. From the first switch on, messages are automatically received. The ticker view is only visible when new messages are available. If all messages stored in the mobile phone have been read, the ticker disappears until a new message arrives. If you still want to see the ticker, you can make the ticker visible again by clicking on the "livecast" button.

What kind of cell phone do I need? For the reception of Vodafone live!cast, a pre-installed client on the mobile phone is necessary. The Panasonic VS3 and the Sagem MyV-76 are the first mobile phones to receive live cast. More mobile phones will follow soon.

What kind of content is available? In addition to a pre-activated live! Mix channel other channels will be available for news, sports and weather. Partners for these channels are each in their own channel, among others. Spiegel online, Focus online and Kicker. The weather comes exclusively from Kachelmann. Further channels are in preparation (e.g. business news, entertainment news).

The live! Mix channel consists of a mix of the most important headlines of the day from the areas of news and sports, TV tips, cinema news, and information about current promotions at Vodafone live! and much more.

The availability and content of the messages may vary regionally. For example, the weather is broadcast differently for each federal state. An expansion of the regional-specific reports is already in preparation.

Unlimited different channels can be received in parallel. The contents of the channels run equally in the ticker on the display.

More on the topic:

Vodafone live!cast works with these mobile phones: * Panasonic VS3 * Sagem myV-76

Panasonic VS3 Manual

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Vodafone live!cast allows you to receive messages related to specific topics such as weather and traffic information provided by SFR and display them cyclically using a banner on the screen saver. You must specify the information channel you want to receive. live cast displays its messages in three modes. This service may not yet be available in your country/region. For more information on this service, contact SFR. To display the predefined number of new messages received. Messages are displayed cyclically. Only part of each message can be displayed. To display 10 recently received messages. Entire messages can be displayed. To display 10 messages from the selected channel. Entire messages can be displayed.

Sagem myV-76 Manual

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Vodafone live!cast - read the headlines of the day, weather and much more information directly in the news ticker on your mobile phone display. If you want to know more about a specific topic: One click takes you to the whole article in the Vodafone live! portal. Select More/Options to change your settings, add more channels or turn off the service. Please note that this service is not available in every country.

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  1. With the launch of 3G and the lack of support (or OpCo's test approval) of Cell-Broadcast over 3G, there were plans for a UDP based lightweight protocol, registered as two patents: Patent EU EP1725063 (A1) · Filed Nov 22, 2006

    Selective (filtered) delivery of communications information to a mobile terminal in a mobile radio network based on functional status information of the mobile terminal Patent EU EP1737195 (A2) · Filed Dec 27, 2006 Methods and apparatus for transmission of information from an information server to a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal

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