Re: Linux PDA/Cell phone thingy

[Tighe <emry@accessus.net>]

Just a small thought on this.  At my company we have a large interactivity
with LG Korea, they are doing quite a bit of work with 3g
cellular/pcs.  The engineers that I have talked to about wireless devices
and whatnot have all said that 2.4-2.8 Mbs is about 1.5-2.5 years
away.  They already have created a little cellular which you can store and
play mp3's on and I think that they are coming up with one in which there
is a hardware compression that allows for mp3 streaming.  

Tighe

>On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Mark wrote:
>
>> Yeah, how can you do video over a cell phone when you can only browse the
>> web at 14.4(max).  This is vaporware.
>
>	Currently, for the US (Europe is better off, by how much better
>off, I don't know) this is probably correct.  However, 2-4 years down the
>road, "3rd Generation" cellular will provide 2-3Mbs to the phone.  The
>primary reason for all of this is that they are switching to a packet
>switching technology from a circuit switching technology, IIRC.
>	Now, if it supports wireless DSL, it would be a different story.
>
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