Computing from your mobile phone

Submitted by editor on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 09:30

Computing from your mobile phone

SK Telecom, Korea's largest wireless network service provider, today launches a service called "mobile mini PC," which allows users to access their PC files through mobile phones.

With the new service, mobile phone users can remotely search and open files as well as run programs on their personal computers, company officials said.

For example, users do not have to convert video or music files and download them to the mobile but can play them on the handset in real time.

"Mobile mini PC is a ubiquitous personal media service, making the PC a media server. We will keep introducing new types of media business models," said Ahn Hoe-kyun, vice president of data business at SK Telecom.

Although mobile phones have evolved to a degree where users enjoy exchanging e-mails, chatting through a messenger program and surfing the internet, the mobile mini PC service enables the operation of more complex programs such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, company officials said.

To subscribe to the service, users must download a program to link their PC to their mobile phone from the website www.minipc.co.kr.

Subscribers are billed a monthly fee of 1,500 won ($2), excluding data transfer fees which can vary from 1.8 won to 9 won per kilobyte, or 10,000 won to 26,000 won in a set monthly charge. Also, the mobile phones must be equipped with the HSDPA function.


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