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09/07/2007, 5:00pm, EDT
Friday, September 7thfrom: www.electronista.com
New deal paves way for 3G iPhones
Wireless technology company InterDigital today announced that it has inked a seven-year licensing agreement with Apple to provide wireless technology for the company's iPhone as well as any future handsets, according to Reuters. InterDigital designs, develops, and provides advanced wireless technology to power voice as well as data communications. The company is a well known developer of wireless communications in the tech industry responsible for creating technology embedded in every 2G (EDGE), 2.5G, and 3G (HSDPA) device on the market. At least one analyst believes the new deal spans 2G and 3G cellular technologies covering bandwidth allocation as well as roaming and power efficiency controls. The analyst also thinks the deal will likely include some form of packet data coding and delivery.
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And of course the browser with mobi web page on windows mobile comes no way near iPhone's usability. So the lesson is that don't believe in the hype made by industry dinasaurs unless you compare real life usability head to head.
But as human nature, we always want something faster. Give it to me now. Faster! Bring it faster! =)
Then there is the muscle power of those phones; in the end, your bottleneck isn't your pipe; it's your browser.
And coverage areas, pick a small country on the map in europe. Hell throw a dart at a map of europe. It's likely that whatever country you hit, has just as many cell phone towers as the entire united states.
3G is not the magic bullet.
Anyway, a minor point, but 2G isn't technically referring to GSM. It's referring to the GPRS part, which is just a solution for data over GSM.