First look at Nextel's FanView trackside video receiver for race fans. first look at nextel fanview trackside receiver. It's an amazing device whose intention is to change the way you view racing: FanView the portable digital trackside media receiver from Sprint Nextel. The view from Jeff Burton's hood, as seen from a FanView device being tested inside the AMD suite at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It's called the FanView, and it's a portable that lets fans interact directly with all the statistics, scoring, video, and audio feeds associated with the race going on in front of them. I can see where this is going: For the FanView to really take off, it has to be what an iPod would be if it were geared specifically for racing....

First look at Nextel's FanView trackside video receiver for race fans. first look at nextel fanview trackside receiver. At this particular race, FanView viewers didn't have access to every car's camera, which isn't surprising and not terribly disappointing. I need access to the race history, and FanView doesn't give me that. And then there's the criticism that Sprint and Nextel, most of all, probably would least expect: The FanView device is too slow. But there was a three second gap between the time the field was frozen, and the time FanView reported that the field was frozen....