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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. 3G is a gimmiky flop by jocks · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have had 3G introduced here in the UK and so far it is awful. The handsets are expensive, the service is expensive, the battery life is very poor, the phones don't play mp3/ogg, the reception is extremely bad and you cannot get "The Internet" on the system either (they don't like you talking about that).

    Call it what you like and make it as fast as you like but no-one is biting. It is an expensive technology conceived and financed at the height of the .COM boom which will never make its money back.

    Our biggest telecoms company wrote off the £9-billion license cost last week to try and stimulate the market. Guess what...no change.

    The first commercial vendor of 3G (a company called "3") has already resorted to pron to try to raise interest.

    Save your money, buy more memory or a bigger screen, or send your money to Ethiopia, but don't waste your cash on this junk it will only disappoint.