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[Neon]

At the largest annual mobile wireless exhibition in Asia, in Hong Kong, Stephen Cole assesses the mobile phones vying for our attention in 2006, and finds that many see a turning point on the horizon.

2006 could be a turning point for the take-up of 3G, some believe
3G stands for third generation, which, put simply, is broadband for your mobile.

However, much of the hype around the services it offers - including video, picture messaging, and accessing the internet - has not been realised in past years.

Despite all the fancy offerings, it turns out that most people use their phones to make telephone calls and send the occasional text.

[ACiD BuRN]

The 3G already is in quite a lot of countries in Europe. I estimate that my country's operators will start using 3G network systems in 2006 last quarter at best...

[utra]

slough this tech seems realy cool i think its pratical to have the internet on a device that takes the avrage peson 15 mins to propply wright a basic paragraph.

[ACiD BuRN]

Yeah, it's speed is like 384kbps. It's a rather good equivalent to a DSL connection