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Sony's LocationFree concept makes it possible to stream your own living room's TV to a PSP, a PC, and now your P990 too, through the (required) LF-PK1 LocationFree Base Station (pictured in the middle) that connects on one side to your TV and on the other one to your broadband network connection, to which you access from your remote device (through WiFi or 3G) no matter where you are. The press release claims that the Location Free Player for P990 is included in the default Memory Stick or can be downloaded from Sony Ericsson's site (I haven't found it in neither places though). What is particularily cool about LocationFree is that you can do way more than just watch TV. You can access virtually any device that can be connected to a TV: a videocamera for one-way videoconferencing or surveillance, a DVD player, a PlayStation... Okay maybe not the latter.

On my other point, back in March, Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld was in everyone's mouths feeds and that's the reason I made the Adriana at the time. But have you heard of this technology at all since then? I haven't. Is the release of LocationFree for P990 another case of showcasing all the (latent) potential of SE's flagship, or an attempt to distract us from the lack of DVB-H development news? Probably both.

Read the Press Release "Sony Ericsson’s P990 goes LocationFree"
Read Cnet's Review of the LF-PK1 LocationFree Base Station

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Unfortunately, there is no such sale in Hong Kong.