how long would a xda/mda II last

[Rudegar]

i'm talking about UTMS the replacement of GSM

would be kinda a biatch
to spend alot on getting a pda/Phone with everything you ever wanted in the features department

only to end up standing in the corner looking with envy
at everybody else having live image streaming on their brand new
UTMS terminal

how often does people get a new phone anyway because i suppose we are standing at a crossroad with a new std comming soon

[Nossie]

Hi,

Are you talking about '3G' ?

You do realise that the ultra fast bandwidth connection drops down to slower than 56k if you happen to be trying to use it on a train?

I heard its not much better walking along the road either...

+ its very expensive per mb...

I think GPRS will be around for a while yet... lol

..... especially when 4G is just around the corner heh :lol:

[Rudegar]

i suppose i am talking about 3G not really sure if UTMS is 3G is 2 words for the same thing

here they just intriduced this
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3244.html
phone

it's Symbian os'd though

[andyclap]

I have a feeling 3G is going to flop, bigtime.

- The phones (including this new one) are just toooo bulky - they make the XDA look positively wafer thin. People want 'cool' tiny phones.

- The content is heavily locked down by the provider, and we all know how good telcos are at supplying content to powerful devices (My O2=very little content; Action update = 15 poor quality ringtones, windows media player's content page doesn't even redirect properly on PIE any more, and I've yet to find any content that optimised for GPRS; all I really want to do is listen to BBC Radio4 over the net)

- GPRS may be expensive, but 3G is ridiculous - averages out at about 50p/m for anything useful.

I'm sticking with GPRS and the 'plain old internet' for the time being.