SAN FRANCISCO: Tech blog maestro Peter Rojas set the tubes on fire today with a breaking story about a new portable DTV from Qualcomm. The FLO TV Personal Television, or PTV, will function specifically with FLO, a mobile DTV service based on Qualcomm’s Media FLO standard. Verizon uses it for VCast, though only a few handsets sport FLO capability. Rojas said Qualcomm plans to intro the new PTV “soon.”

He said the device is likely to have a “capacitive touchscreen with a swipe and gesture-driven UI,” 4 GB of memory, stereo speakers and 300 hours of standby battery life.

Rojas, principal of gdgt.com and founder of gear blogs Gizmodo and Engadget, obtained the rendering from his source at Qualcomm.

More on the FLO TV device:
“Qualcomm Readying Handheld FLO TV Personal Television Device,” from gdgt.com.