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Posted on June 29, 2009Palm Cell Phones No Contract like other No Contract Cell Phones that can be used to browse the net, amplified itself with eBooks. The fantastic electronic book reader and one of the hottest gifts of the year, the Amazon Kindle, is expanding and doing what it can to get itself into the smart phone market, with help from BlackBerry Cell Phones. What does this mean exactly? Simply put the revolutionary technology wants to continue trailblazing by making its books and digital titles available in numerous other platforms outside the kindle itself.
The kindle is already huge market success and continues to grow in popularity. Since hitting the market there were many imitations though none have gotten the praise and fan base the kindle has. And what have we mostly learned, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. But yes, the Kindle is a huge success ; A lightweight device that may easily download eBooks allowing users to carry a library of info on a tablet smaller compared to a laptop computer. But , as is mostly the case with a giant like Amazon, Amazon is not quite satisfied with the gizmo or rather ; they know they can continue to improve on the machine. There hope is to expand outside the Kindle itself.
Now they are integrating to the smartphone market. Essentially, the books which are approved to be placed in their library of EBooks will now be available for download on new items, not simply the Kindle. The concept is to allow those with smartphones to download books onto their phones if they’re so inclined. The hope is that with their books available on Blackberry cell phones, smart phones, Kindles and other devices, they will increase profits even if the actual Kindle devices sell in less quantities.
This is an amazing idea, making books electronic, and it has just been taken a set further by placing these Ebooks onto Blackberry cell phones and other smartphones. There isn’t any telling what will come next but I’m aware that I am excited to see it. Will Kindles and Blackberry cell phones alike soon have picture, music and book libraries all stored within one handheld device? It doesn’t seem too far off and if that is the case our modern world has once again become that much more convenient. Are we just spoiled, lucky, both or neither? I am still not sure. Either way I am concerned to see the following trick these firms have up their sleeve because recently, it appears to be a good one. So show me what you got!
3G Vs 4G – The BIG Difference
Posted on June 13, 20092G technology is the most widely used network technology for mobile phones. More than 80% of cellular phone users around the world use 2G technology at present. One disadvantage that 2G has compared to 3G technology is that data rates are limited – it is relatively slower than 3G. Lower data transfer speed means slower music and video downloads, problems when making a video conference call, or long waits for sending/receiving large media messages.
That is the main reason for the development of newer network technologies such as 3G that offer a data transfer speed of up to 2Mbps (2 Mega Bits per second). Anyone using a 3G phone knows that that is far from being true; in fact, it almost never exceeds 384Kbps, at most.
A new technology being developed these days, 4G, will supposedly allow data transfer speeds as high as 100Mbps (50 times faster than today’s 3G!) outdoors, and a blasting 1Gbps indoors.
So what are the main features of 4G technology?
- Wireless internet with a bandwidth much wider than the 2G or the 3G – 100 MHZ.
- Much higher data transfer speed – up to 1Gbps.
- Video conference calls – with more than 2 callers, and due to the faster data transfer rates, less problems; also, will not get stuck as often as it does with 3G.
- Improved security features to prevent frauds and theft.
- On account of the wider bandwidths, data transfers will be relatively cheap
There are not enough details about 4G technology to compare with other technologies. Without a doubt it will be better, faster, and probably cheaper, but all users would have to get the new devices, meaning compatible devices (which probably aren’t going to be cheap), and wait for the new networks and antennas that will go with this newest technology.
Anyway, NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese company working on developing 4G technology in association with HP, estimates that 4G services will be launched (in Japan only) somewhere between 2010-2016, and it will probably take a couple more years after that for it to get to the United States so that we still have plenty of time to adjust and get ready.