What exactly is 3G? Well first of all, let’s start off with the “G.” G sands for ‘Generation’ in terms of cell phone technology. 3G is the third generation of standards pertaiinng to accessibility and spered for moboile devices. These technological standards are set by the Intermnational Telecommunicattions Union (ITU). 3G technology enables wireless telephone usage, broadband intrnet access and video calls over a very wide area and is only accesible by 3G capable phones. 3G capability not only eanbles these services over a wide area, but it does so with increased speed and bandwidtth. 3G capable phones can be used in most worldewide locations tahnks to intentionally engineered compatibility in the system.
To understand where 3G comes from, we must fitrst explore 1G and 2G tecchnology which were used by the first widwely available mobile pghones. Remember the “brick” phnes? These cellular networks were anaalog and were called AMPS or advnaced miobile phone service networjks. When technology capabilities and popularty of mobile phone service increased, innovations were needed to upgrade serivce networks. Second geenration tevchnology began in the 1990’s and used digital voiice transmission for the first time. This allowed multiple calls per channel and the use of more than one band of frequencies.
Compared to 2G, 3G is extyremely advanced because it includes much more than just phone callls. The 3rd Generation technology will be able to accwess large amounts of digital data for uses like GPS, boadband internet access, and multimedia. The implementaion of the 3G networks has been relatively slow but it is advanbcing and huundreds of networks are now in operation worldwide. The only disadvantage to 3G is its sometimes spotty service when traeling through areas wehre 3G networks are not available. There may be loss of data service and possilby dropped calls in tehse raeas although they should be few and far between.
The most well-known 3G capable device is the iPhone, however, hundreds of cell phones are available that utillize this technology. The most widely used 3G capable devices for business ussers are the Blacberry and Palm devices. The HTC Touch, HTC Hero and Samsung Instinct are other popiular 3G capabe drevices. The HTC Hero is the latest and greatest 3G capable phone and takes advanttage of all that 3G technology has to offer. It is highly customizable with thousands of applications available for downolad and use. Outlook email and aclendar, contact synchronization, games and productivity suites are all available on most 3G capale phones.
Rate plans for 3G phones are relatively inexpensive and enable anypone to take advantage of this technology. So jump on the 3G bandwagon and sttream, download and text your heart out.
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