Sprint Testing 2.4Mbs Wireless Cellphone

stuccoguy writes: "In a press release on Tuesday Sprint and Lucent announced the successfull testing of a 2.4Mbs wireless internet connection and plans to ship the technology by 2002. ZDNet speculates that this technology will change everything. Sprint will answer questions about the technology on a webcast this Friday."

Comments

Re:Other limitations overshadow this

[mkozlows]

Forget the phone. Imagine instead a router, like the DSL routers that a lot of people have already -- except instead of plugging into a DSL line, it has a cell receiver that can receive and transmit data wicked fast no matter how far you are from the CO.

This is still in the tech-demo phase, but if they roll it out, and it works, it'll be very tempting tech.

Other limitations overshadow this

[interiot]

So the phone can download a lot of data really fast. Where's it going to put it? In its few megabytes of memory?

99% of the market isn't going to have it attached to a laptop. So the phone has to use the data immediately, as streaming A/V. So you can watch TV on your phone or listen to streamed MP3's. Cell phone battery life is already terrible, now we're going to want to use them at least as much as we use a radio or TV?

My prediction: short battery life is going to become increasingly annoying.
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Thank God!

[Horizon_99]

I was really getting tired of lugging around all those cellphone wires!

your unit is showing

[wickline]

Taco says 2.4Mbs

ZDNet says 4.2 MB per second

press release says 2.4 mbps

Now the press release is not that interesting because 2.4 milli bits per second is only one bit every 417 seconds

CmdrTaco's rendition is plausible and interesting

ZDNet is smoking crack if they think they can beat DSL with their cell phone.