3G mobile phones — what has changed and what to consider.
Mobile phones of the 3G generation
Today you often hear about third-generation phones. Yes, these are the 3G phones. Nowadays manufacturers and independent experts talk a lot about what they will be like in a few years. How will new technologies affect the world's best-known manufacturers, in particular Vertu? What new capabilities will they offer their users? Let's try to take a closer look at next-generation phones.
Most of the talk comes from the "Big Three": Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, who constantly draw consumers' attention to their latest concept devices. They will be more expensive than the average modern phones, but not as costly as Vertu, which already defines the target audience manufacturers are aiming at.
All such devices will be divided into 4 main categories: 1. Simple 3G handsets, intended mainly for voice calls. All information will be stored on the network. 2. Phones that will support video streams and allow users to get news and use web content. 3. Phones as information centers will allow users to download from the Internet and store any information on the device. 4. Devices supporting the functions of high-tech electronic organizers. Using the phone should be made easier with the help of a wireless keyboard.
The manager at Orange, Ben Richardson, whose specialization is online media, believes that UMTS handsets, despite their greater capabilities and power, will be more compact than the familiar modern GSM-standard devices. Thanks to the use of a miniature IBM disk drive in them, 3G phones will become lighter and more compact. Manufacturers plan to address the problem of an inconvenient small screen by developing models with a flip or sliding display.
Other analysts are confident that by the time 3G is fully in use, speech-recognition technologies will have reached such a level of development that they will make the use of a keyboard obsolete. This will inevitably affect all phone manufacturers: from budget lines to elite collections, in particular the Vertu Constellation. It is clear that the absence of a keyboard will also affect the device's compactness.
The use of voice browsers, according to many analysts, will lead to "not the user talking to the Internet, but the Internet talking to the user."