3G: we’re still waiting
13 September 2012
The future for third-generation mobile phones - which allow staff to send pictures to head office from anywhere and transmit data many times faster than today - looks shaky, as Simon Vail reports
Take a trip to Japan and you’ll see plenty of people making calls on the latest generation of mobile phones. They can switch the phone on and see a colour picture of the person they’re calling. The phones have a tiny camera lens and colour screen built into the flip-top lid of the pocket-sized device.
These so-called third-generation (3G) phones have led to new...