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Just In Case 3G Isn't Speedy Enough

Posted by Hemos on from the faster-and-faster-it-goes dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Will we soon be able to download music or videos on our cell phones? Yes, with the arrival of the next 3.5G technology, as reports Jennifer L. Schenker in this International Herald Tribune article. "NTT DoCoMo Inc., the Japanese company that introduced the first third-generation digital mobile phone service in the world, is preparing to pioneer wireless services that are at least 40 times as fast." DoCoMo will use "a technology called HSDPA, for high-speed downlink packet access, also known as 3.5G, [which] is expected to deliver data at as much as 14.4 megabits a second." This new technology will not arrive in Europe before 2006 at least. Check this column for a summary."

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  1. 2006 eh? by RajivSLK · · Score: 5, Funny

    This new technology will not arrive in Europe before 2006 at least.

    Japan now and in europe in 2006 -- early extrapolations of this trend indicate that this technology will splash into the north american market as early as 2032.

    Lets keep our fingers crossed.

  2. At 14.4 Mb/s... by Markus+Registrada · · Score: 5, Funny
    The battery life for these things will be about three minutes.

    Assuming that by the time the networks get built we can use fuel-cell batteries, then the problem will be heat build-up. Can you imagine a phone with a fan? Heat pumps are little help, because they can only move heat from inside to the case, and you can't have the phone getting too hot to hold. "Are you happy to see me, or is that a 4G phone in your pocket?" I suppose ice fisherman could use them to keep their hands warm.

    Before these things could become practical we would need asynchronous-logic chips or spin-coupled logic, both over a decade off.

    The days of defrauding investors are far from over.