I was talking to my little cousin in England and she’s bragging about how she has a smart phone and it’s on the G3 thingy (not sure what that’s called). And, she was asking what I do with my phone, and I told her that I use it for work, primarily, just that it doesn’t do what her does (mine is pretty much a phone with a calendar and a camera, hers is like a mini computer). Anyway, her phone sounds a lot cooler than mine.
I live in the US and I don’t think we have G3 capability here, or do we, just not like the Europeans? Does anyone know of a good site or a primer that goes over this technology? I try to google it, and all I get are references to Macs. I was trying to talk my aunt into buying me one for my birthday coming up, but I want to make sure that I can use it in the US. Is the G3 that much better than the G2 (which I found out doesn’t stand for “generation” like I previously thought)? Thanks.
It is a third-generation wireless telephony standard that incorporates high-speed video and audio transmission. It has been in Japan for a while, and recently arrived in Europe. I’m not sure when North America expects to get up and running.
As others have pointed out its 3G not G3. Its basically broadband mobile - it allows you to make and receive video calls, watch streaming video on your phone and stuff like that. If you had it available where you are then i’m sure you’d know about it - they’d be advertising it non stop. You could get a 3G phone which would work on normal 2G or 2.5G networks but there isn’t much point to be honest, you’d be paying for features you couldn’t use. I’ve got a 3G phone and its quite cool, but i only got it because of the dirt cheap deals the 3G operator are offering at the moment.
BTW - i think the G does stand for Generation. 3rd Generation mobile phone network = 3G.
Europeans like to brag that their cell phones are so much more superior. If we only had 20 square miles worth of country, we would have upgraded our systems by now too. It’s pretty easy to upgrade your cell network when it consists of only one or two towers.
The G in 3G definitively stands for “generation”: the international standards body that lays down the algorithms involved in sending a 3G call is the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, which is usually abbreviated by those in the trade to “3GPP”. Hence 3G as “3rd Generation”.
(There is also the related 3GSM, but that’s the usual GSM-acronym screwup.)
